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-1 & Plan 9 by Cyclotron_Boy · 2004-06-16 07:24 · Score: 1, Troll

I hear good things about this combination.
Question to /. by tjkrz · 2004-06-16 07:32 · Score: 0, Troll

Can someone do this calculation for me? This seems easier than getting out my graphing calculator. It's all the way inside my bag which is at my feet. 5 * 89 - 303333 + 307 % 4 =