[nmglug] RAID, SCSI vs ATA

[Andres Paglayan]

I am kind of tackling the same things at home,
new hi-res camera, and lots of stuff to store,
and so far I am considering getting whatever mobo supporting several  
(5 to 8) sata disks,
and starting with 3 or 6 500GB raided drives,
roughly $450 for 1TB or $750 for 2,5 TB


On Jan 20, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Tim Emerick wrote:

> I have a storage server setup at my house.  It's an old P2-400 with  
> 2-250gb HD's (non-raided).  I'm constantly having to move files  
> around to balance them between the 2 discs so one doesn't fill up.   
> I've been wanting to put together something together so I could  
> have a storage area that just looks like a big disk as well as  
> maybe add some data protection (family pix being a form of currency  
> around here and all) and RAID5 has come to mind.
>
> I recently came into a Dell PowerEdge 2500 server.  It's an old P3  
> with 9 hot-swappable SCSI drive bays and includes 3 18g drives.   
> Only problem is that SCSI drives are relatively expensive and they  
> seem small for my purpose.  I would like to put in 5 PATA or SATA  
> 250GB drives since they are relatively inexpensive and RAID them  
> together with Linux which should result in a 1TB storage device.   
> Speed is not necessarily a consideration.  1 large space with HD  
> failure protection is.
>
> Anybody have any experience with this? or should I just go buy a  
> standalone NAS box with 1TB of storage?  That PowerEdge sure is big  
> and noisy and I'm sure a heck of a power drain.
>
> I welcome any suggestions from the group.
>
> Tim
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