Many years ago I setup a RAID5 system, primarily becausae 1TB had just come out and they were horrendously expensive, my local computer store had 256G drives dirt cheap, so I bought 6 of them and put them in a RAID5 array using linux software RAID (actually only 4, the other two were spares). The primary reason for doing this was not for the protection, but so I had one large volume so I didn't have to worry about what songs went on which disk. Yes I only had 750G, but that was enough.
By using software RAID it was a portable array. That array has been used on three different motherboards and a couple different linux OS versions. Once TB drives became cheaper I started backing it up on a TB drive. I had to replace one of the drives, it went without a hitch, just put in one of the spares and run the software and it rebuilt the array. After many years something catastrophic happened, a disk went bad and the array could not be rebuilt. I never did find out why. At that point I decided it was high time to retire the array, took the whole library, put it on a tiny drive inside a FITPC2 and put vortexbox on it. It works great and fits in the palm of my hand! Today I would never do that array, large drives are available cheap enough to hold the whole thing on one drive. I do a full backup on an external drive at regular intervals, every so often I need it. It's been awhile since I have taken one off site, I probably need to do that. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98350 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
