RE: Heterogenous, dynamic RAID for a home server

2012-02-22 Thread Shahar Dag
I would try: 4*2T => (raid 5) net 6T 3*1T => (raid 5) net 2T Total net disk space is the same 8T but all disks are in raid Shahar -Original Message- From: linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il [mailto:linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il] On Behalf Of Ira Abramov Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 3:3

Re: Heterogenous, dynamic RAID for a home server

2012-02-22 Thread Amos Shapira
The Wikipedia article about drobo explains a bit about their disk layout. Also what about using raid 6 instead of 5? I think I read claims that it's not only more resilient nut could also be faster. On Feb 23, 2012 12:44 AM, "Ira Abramov" wrote: > Hey people, > > A friend of mine want to build a

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2012-02-22 Thread Ira Abramov
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Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> Again, this isn't too practical these days (with BB anywhere). >> > > BB? > Sorry, I did not have my 1984 hat on. Big brother. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://m

Re: Preparing to convince to shift to non-propriety documents formats

2012-02-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
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Heterogenous, dynamic RAID for a home server

2012-02-22 Thread Ira Abramov
Hey people, A friend of mine want to build a file server machine at home to get the benefits of a Drobo, but for 1500 NIS rather than $1500. The idea is to mix in 1T, 2T and 3T disks he already has, and on occasion grow the ׁ•torage by another disk or replace and rebalance it. He wants it to be m