Hello, hello, I am currently gathering information on how to setup a RAID-1 File Server in my home-office network. I'd appreciate it if you could help me out on which redirection to go.
My Requirements: - Storage device for SVN server repositories, MySQL catalogs, file backups (using rsync), audio and personal files - Client OSes are Linux, Windows, and MacOS X Specs of my current server: - Pentium III 800Mhz with 1.0 GB of RAM - Single on-board IDE controller - 15GB HDD with Mandrake Linux 9.2. Additional hardware I'm planning to buy: 1. Two (2) Maxtor DiamondMax10 300GB 7200 16MB ATA-133 2. An additional ATA controller Documentation: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html Below are my questions: 1. Since I'm buying another ATA card, I might as well just buy a similarly priced RAID card. I found one card: Cables Unlimited UltraATA 133 RAID PCI http://tinyurl.com/7coy5 - Has anyone used this card with Linux before? It's a cheap card compared to most RAID cards and may be enough for my requirements. I'm still trying to find out if the card works on Linux since most of the cheap cards only have Windows drivers. Which makes me think that it might be software-based much like WinModems are on Windows. Is it? 2. There are Serial ATA controllers that are on the cheap-side as well. Below is one such card: Cables Unlimited Serial ATA 2-Port RAID card http://tinyurl.com/8w56u The documentation says it works with Linux which is good. - Will I be better of just using Serial ATA instead of ATA? ('Need to read more on this) - How's SATA support on Linux? 3. Any bad experience with Maxtor DiamondMax 10 HDDs? I'd appreciate tips and/or suggestions. Thanks, jeff -- __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
