Comment Re:World War III - The Cyber War (Score 0, Flamebait) 651
Not sure why this is scored as '5, funny' and not '5, insightful'
Comment That's a lot of... (Score 1) 326
Swamp gas...
Submission + - RAID vs. JBOD vs. Standard HDD's
Ravengbc writes: Hey everyone,
I am in the process of planning and buying some hardware to build a media center/media server. While there are still quite a few things on it that I haven't decided on, such as motherboard/processor, and windows xp vs. Linux, right now my debate is on storage. I'm wanting to have as much storage as possible. At first I was thinking about just putting in a bunch hdd's and leaving it at that. Then I started thinking about doing a RAID array, looking at RAID 5. However, some of the stuff I was initially told about RAID 5, I am now learning to be not true. Such as, RAID 5 drives are limited to the size of the smallest drive in the array. And the way things are looking, even if I gradually replace all of the drives with larger ones, the array will still read the original size. For example, say I have 3x500gb drives in RAID 5 and over time replace all of them with 1TB drives. Instead of reading one big 3tb drive, it will still read 1.5tb. Is this true?
I also considered using JBOD simply because I can use different size hdd's and have them all appear to be one large one, but there is no redundancy with this, which has me leaning away from it.
If y'all were building a system for this purpose, how many drives and what size drives would y'all use and would y'all do some form of RAID or what?
Also, if anyone has suggestions on motherboard/cpu thoughts, I'm open to suggestions.
Thanks guys.
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Filed under: Wireless, Networking
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