Am 20.03.2010 19:26, schrieb Mark Knecht: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:38 AM, KH <gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de> wrote: >> Mark Knecht schrieb: >>> >> > <Smiling broadly...> :-) Yeah.. Well, keeping my wife's data safe > keeps me happy. :-) > > So the chassis and drives for this 1st machine are on order. 6 1TB > green drives. Now I just need to decide what sort of RAID to use. I > don't need much speed writing so I'm thinking maybe a 3 drive RAID1 > setup with a hot spare managed using mdadm and then LVM on top of it. >
With 4 drives, you could build a RAID-6, too. It's like a RAID-5 but protects against failure of any two drives.
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