Subj : To RAID or not to RAID?
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : astark
Date : Thu Aug 19 2004 08:11 pm

-=> Angus Mcleod wrote to astark <=-

 AM>   Re: To RAID or not to RAID?
 AM>   By: astark to Angus Mcleod on Wed Aug 18 2004 19:18:00

 > Im interested in how your going to do this as well as upon my return to the
 > states I am moving my mp3 drive to a dedicated machine and want to put as
 > least ammount of wear and tear on it as possible =)

 AM> As of now, no decisions made.

 AM> I want some redundancy, because I'm not prepared to lose 60-80 gig of
 AM> music due to some disk drive going bad.  So originally I thought of
 AM> using a RAID configuration.  I was thinking RAID-1 (mirroring) of two x
 AM> 80 Gig IDE drives. I would use Linux with the software RAID feature
 AM> which I have used previously (commercial environment) and had success
 AM> with.

Sounds similar to what I want to do. I currently have about 80 or so gigs of
music that
is currently sitting on one 120 gig western digital. But I know that eventually
that drive
is going to poop and all my data will be forever gone. Once i return home
(where my nix
boxes sit in storage currently) I plan to purchase another 120 and convert one
of the boxes
to my mp3/video only machine. I know you do FreeBSD (i installed in once, but
did not get much
farther than an initial bootup before i had to drop it due to some other thigns
going on), But I
am familiar with linux (love redhat & mandrake & debian), so the setup should
be fairly similar.

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