On Apr 7, 2005 12:06 AM, David Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Milan Andric wrote: > > >I'm basically stuck on the RAID. Since I do not have enough data > >*right now* to use the 3 x 300G RAID 5, I'd like to just buy two > >drives now and use mdadmin to > >setup a RAID 5 with 2 missing drives and add drives as time goes on. > > > > > > > > > Personally, I think this is a very bad idea. You can't have small with > server sized power and capacity at a reasonable price. As most people > have commented, you'll get noise and heat from having four disks in a > small space. Also don't forget about the video card unless your planning > on using the built in one on the mother board plus you'll need a pretty > good power supply too. > Good RAID 5 doesn't come on many of the 'on-board' controllers and most > of them are software RAID anyway. If you want real RAID 5 then you're > looking at a significant additional cost, plus another PCI slot for the > board (which adds more heat). Do you really want RAID 5?
i'm planning on using the md (software) raid -- just SATA controllers. i will probably disable the raid features in the BIOS. > I have five disks in my mid-sized case and I can tell you that it's > noisy enough to notice. Although some of the newer disks are a lot > quieter than one or two I still have whirring away. > My case is HOT! Think about where you live too, if it get's > significantly hotter in the summer you'll need to take that into > consideration. I've become victim to this (although it hardly get's hot > in the UK), but basically in the summer I found my case temps rising a > lot in the day and didn't have enough cooling. > I now have LVM set up with two 250GB drives and that's the way I'd > recommend you going. By the time you've filled up two 300GB disks you'll > probably be wanting a separate back end anyway. Then you can put it in > the garage and it can be as big and noisy as you like :-) > If you still want to go with lots of disks, then a larger case is needed > and try and separate them as far away from each other as possible so the > air can get around them. (Although that 3 in 4 disk caddy looked > interesting it's adding more fans which adds noise). > likely go with this board (rather than add a promise TX4 card which costs ~$70), i figure i can just spend a few extra $$ for motherboard with alot of sata ports : Epox "EP-8RDA6+Pro" NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 Chipset http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-123-221&depa=1 and case that can house 3 to 5 drives : Antec Solution Series Black ATX Mid Tower Case, Model "SLK3000-B" http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=11-129-152&depa=1 adding a good PS and large fan to the front where the drives sit should provide the extra cooling necessary? hopefully the noise won't be that bad. -- Milan _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
