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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. 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 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