hmm , good point about the redunancy percentage, would the writes be much slower or are we talking about up to 20% slower? is rebuild/very used at all times or is it only at the array creation stage? on a completely seperate topic you know if there is a way to use apt-get to install something in...
Thanks for all the replies, al i need now is to find someone with a drive to lend me so i can back up the data!
How inefficient are we talking, like as long a I can drag a movie cross the network in under 5 min its grand!
thanks for the pointer, I'll have to check On-line RAID-5 expansion and my adaptec card.
I guess i could add another 3 drives and have 2 RAID 5 arrays?
is it possible to mount 2 arrays to the same directory in linux?
Hi,
Sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question to ask, but to be honest i'm learning so don't kill me.
At the moment I have a linux server setup (using clarkconnect) for home use, movies games and videos etc. and its got 3 SATA drives setup in RAID 5 on an adaptec 2610sa card (dell branded...
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