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HOWTO: 0.5TB RAID on a Budget

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. /. on budget: by roman_mir · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

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  2. Not a big deal. by Seumas · · Score: 5, Funny

    Okay, half a terabyte? Hardly worth lifting a finger for. I have more than 2.5 terabytes almost entirely of porn. And not only that, but it's all stored on 20 IDE drives of various sizes, in external USB cases, plugged into three 7-port D-Link USB hubs, plugged into a PC.

    That's a lot of storage.

    That's balls-to-the-wall.

    I'll take a picture of all the drives stacked up on one another on the desk (5 rows, 4 drives tall).

    I take my porn seriously.

    1. Re:Not a big deal. by Seumas · · Score: 4, Funny

      Who marked this "Funny"?

      I'm serious. And it shoudl be "Informative", you insensitive clods!

    2. Re:Not a big deal. by MustardMan · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'll take a picture of all the drives stacked up on one another on the desk (5 rows, 4 drives tall).

      With that much porn, I think the last picture /. geeks want to see is of the drives

    3. Re:Not a big deal. by Universal+Indicator · · Score: 2, Funny

      Probably only one or the other.

    4. Re:Not a big deal. by Seumas · · Score: 3, Funny

      I certainly do. Organizing 2.5 terrabytes of porn is a bitch. It's like "Hm... does this go in midgets or does it go in animals->poultry -- or should I create an entirely new midget and poultry sub-category?".

      Worse, all of the "media catalogue" programs for Windows crash before they finish cataloguing my collection. I even tried it with iView Media Pro on my Mac and that crashed, too after about a terabyte.

      This is a serious issue that, as time goes on, I believe Google will need to address. Maybe some sort of specialized Spoogle porn-search appliance?

      Do you feel lucky today? - You bet I do. Spank spank!

    5. Re:Not a big deal. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
      I have more than 2.5 terabytes almost entirely of porn. And not only that, but it's all stored on 20 IDE drives of various sizes, in external USB cases, plugged into three 7-port D-Link USB hubs, plugged into a PC.

      No words...should have sent...a poet.

  3. Re:Now *thats* redundant. by chrismcdirty · · Score: 2, Funny

    I always do the cheapo route and do maxtor, anyway. Every WD drive I've ever owned has failed me.

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  4. Re:What am I missing here? by Anonymous+Luddite · · Score: 3, Funny

    >> manly RAID 5?

    Yeah, really I'd prefer raid 5 too, but TFA was about a "poor mans" raid array.

    More or less on-topic: take a look at this guy's really pointless raid 5 setup. Very cool.

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  5. Re:my attempt at RAID... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You do realize that mdadm 1.11 is unstable?

    1.8 was the last stable version.