How to create a terabyte storage array?

[Soo-Hyun Choi]

Thanks for your reply.

Okay, then it would be better to go for RAID-5 instead of just RAID-0.
How did you set up your RAID system? What sort of process should I
follow?

So, if there is a WinXP client, would this person also be able to gain
an access to this RAID disk array?

Thanks again,


On 11/30/05, Anders Karlsson <trudheim at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/30/05, Soo-Hyun Choi <shchoi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> Morning,
>
> > I'm trying to build a file server for home use with Ubuntu Breezy. I
> > really do not have an idea where to start. I just read a couple of
> > RAID articles but doesn't seem to suit in this purpose.
>
> RAID is very suited for this.
>
> > I'm now thinking to put 5 HDDs (200MB) in a single machine to use for
> > a file server. And the clients will use both Ubuntu (it's for me) and
> > Windows XP (it's for my family).
>
> You could do that and create a RAID-0 across the five discs, giving
> you the 1TB you want, but at the price that if one disc fails, you
> lose all your data.
> You could instead get 5 x 250GB discs and create a RAID-5 across them,
> giving you a 1TB array but with the difference that you can have one
> disc fail, and the array keeps working.
>
> I am currently running my system off a RAID-1 mirror (software) and
> Breezy handled the setup of that fine during installation.
>
> HTH,
>
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