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Hi,
Just managed to get an Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 21610SA very cheap on ebay. It has some limitations in max array size = 2TB and max drive size of 1TB, but this is overcome by a bucket method described here.
What I wanted to just get an opinion on is how I plan to set it up. I plan on using 1TB drives and initially starting with 4. For each array I will take a slice of 250GB of each drive. This means there will be 4 arrays which I can join together in the OS (if necessary). I will be using Raid 5. Performance isn't a big issue for me and I am going to be limited to 120MB/S anyway on the bus (that's more than fast enough for me).
I'm assuming from this paper that I can add drives into the array, upto a maximum of 8 drives, which will give me 7GB storage.
Could someone confirm I have got this right please? I'm new to raid and this will be my first homebuilt NAS.
Thanks in advance for any comments
Just managed to get an Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 21610SA very cheap on ebay. It has some limitations in max array size = 2TB and max drive size of 1TB, but this is overcome by a bucket method described here.
What I wanted to just get an opinion on is how I plan to set it up. I plan on using 1TB drives and initially starting with 4. For each array I will take a slice of 250GB of each drive. This means there will be 4 arrays which I can join together in the OS (if necessary). I will be using Raid 5. Performance isn't a big issue for me and I am going to be limited to 120MB/S anyway on the bus (that's more than fast enough for me).
I'm assuming from this paper that I can add drives into the array, upto a maximum of 8 drives, which will give me 7GB storage.
Could someone confirm I have got this right please? I'm new to raid and this will be my first homebuilt NAS.
Thanks in advance for any comments
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