How to create a terabyte storage array?

[Zach]

Why not use Logical Volume Manager to combine the disks into a single
logical volume?  Then it could be easily extended by adding additional
disks later.

On 11/30/05, Soo-Hyun Choi <shchoi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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