Which RAID for a Personal Fileserver?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday June 16, 2004 @07:21AM from the how-much-redundancy-can-you-handle dept.

Dredd2Kad asks: "I'm tired of HD failures. I've suffered through a few of them. Even with backups, they are still a pain to recover from. I've got all fairly inexpensive but reliable hardware picked out, but I'm just not sure which RAID level to implement. My goals are to build a file server that can live through a drive failure with no loss of data, and will be easy to rebuild. Ideally, in the event of a failure, I'd just like to remove the bad hard drive and install a new one and be done with it. Is this possible? How many drives to I need to get this done, 2,4 or 5? What size should they be? I know when you implement RAID, your usable drive space is N% of the total drive space depending on the RAID level."

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Raid by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-16 07:26 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Kills Bugs Dead. Stupid fuckin bugs.
Re:The word is FUCK by Tenareth · 2004-06-16 08:28 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Uhm, it's based on the FSCK command... in the old days, when you had to use it, you were FUCKed, because you were probably going to lose data.

Therefore, FSCKd is saying the same thing... Just like FUCK used to be a law that eventually got turned into a vulgar term related to the act that was related to the law.

get it?

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