[nmglug] getting started with software raid [was: help with soft raid needed today sunday]

[Sam Noble]

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 01:33:28PM -0700, Arlo Barnes wrote:
> I have a pile of Inexpensive Discks and was wondering
> how I could get started Redundantly Arraying them.

$man mdadm
Then add 2 to 272 hours reading and futzing.

> Presumably I need some hardware, at least some daisy-chaining SATA/IDE
> cables.

You need exactly the same hardware as if you were going to use the disks
individually. Enough cables and controller ports to plug in however many
disks you want to play with.

> Should I bring them in one of these Thursdays?

Sounds good.

-- 
sam