On 20/02/2010 01:00, Jake Anderson wrote:
Nigel Allen wrote:
Greetings
I want to set up a pair of 1 TB drives on an HP DL145 G3 and I'm
looking for suggestions as to the best way to partition them.
Would I be best using software RAID and LVM? Given that it's a fairly
busy machine (mail server for 40+ users) I'd like to achieve:
1) Speed
2) Reliability
3) Ease of maintenance.
Anyone care to take a punt at a layout?
TIA
Nigel.
I wouldn't bother with LVM.
Personally I'd set up a 3 disk raid 5 and just partition onto it
directly, if you want more room (not likley with 1Tb drives) you can
grow the raid 5 array rather than needing to add on another array and
join it onto the end.
ONly one problem there - the DL145 only take 2 x Sata drives internally.
I'm having to stick in a PCI-Express card with two sata ports so I can
get the new drives populated from the old (small) ones. I'd love to be
able to use more than two but it's a physical limitation.
Rgds
Nigel.
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