HOWTO: 0.5TB RAID on a Budget

Posted by timothy on Saturday June 25, 2005 @09:09AM from the not-so-far-from-retail dept.

Compu486 writes "Inventgeek.com has a new how-to article titled 'The Poor Mans Raid Array.' The article details how to make a modular .5 terabyte Raid 5 array for under $250 (USD), and it all runs on the Mandriva flavor of Linux." Drive prices being what they are, this seems cooler than it is practical. Update: 06/25 23:31 GMT by T : If that's not enough storage, Yeechang Lee writes "Let me show off the 2.8TB Linux-powered RAID 5 array I built for home use a few months ago. I provide lots of details on how I did it, what I used, and the results. The Usenet thread has good followup posts from others, too."

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I dont think some of you are getting it..... by Compu486 · 2005-06-25 10:16 · Score: 0, Flamebait

This is RAID 5. If you understand the significance of that then don't post.... your just embarrassing your self's. Secondly... This is "Hardware" based Raid. Not to be confused with Software. Retards run software based RAID.