Agreed. I got two 250GB HDs for our home file server running Linux, and it's awesome. Don't have to worry about losing data (unless the house catches fire).
Jeremiah E. Bess Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 18:16, Daniel Eggleston <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd set them up in RAID 1; give the data some redundancy, especially with > that much data. > > On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Kari Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have a customer who wants a new server. I convinced him to go with >> Linux instead of Windows. He then asked at the end that I put 2-1TB drives >> in the server. I assume the second is for storage b/c they deal with pretty >> large files. >> >> In your opinion, what should I do with the second drive? Should I put >> Linux on both drives? I was going to do a data partition on the first drive >> ... if I did that for both, that would be 4 partitions. What is the best >> way to handle this? >> >> I know this is a rather silly question, but I am unsure how to best >> utilize the space on the 2nd drive. It's tempting to put it in an external >> casing and just use it as a backup drive. I don't know. >> >> Opinions welcome, since you're all brilliant. TIA. >> >> ~kari >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >> Group. >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit our group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >> > > > > -- > > Daniel > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >
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