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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."

3 of 278 comments (clear)

  1. typical? by mnemonic_ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    this seems cooler than it is practical.
    Perfect for slashdot!

  2. Howto by zabagel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Possible new Slashdot Category?

  3. Re:Cool? Naah, old by ZorinLynx · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Uhh, it'd be worse. You're more likely to have a double drive failure out of ten drives than three.

    And a double failure is all it takes to take out a RAID5.

    -Z