HOWTO: 0.5TB RAID on a Budget

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."

Comments

Re:Well, it's not without its problems

[MustardMan]

Interesting? Insightful? This is a direct copy and paste from TFA.

Re:Now *thats* redundant.

[WhatAmIDoingHere]

ABIT KV8Pro with a pair of 74 gig Raptors in RAID 0. My friend with the Alienware is jealous.

Re:Not a big deal.

[Anubis350]

heh, I know a guy who could use this array for just that :-P. There is a guy at my school who shares on our DirectConnect network 650GBs of porn. A few friends of mine and I once calculated that at standard dvd --> divx codec compression it was somewhere around 4 years of porn...