How to create a terabyte storage array?

[Anders Karlsson]

On 11/30/05, Soo-Hyun Choi <shchoi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,

Morning,

> I'm trying to build a file server for home use with Ubuntu Breezy. I
> really do not have an idea where to start. I just read a couple of
> RAID articles but doesn't seem to suit in this purpose.

RAID is very suited for this.

> I'm now thinking to put 5 HDDs (200MB) in a single machine to use for
> a file server. And the clients will use both Ubuntu (it's for me) and
> Windows XP (it's for my family).

You could do that and create a RAID-0 across the five discs, giving
you the 1TB you want, but at the price that if one disc fails, you
lose all your data.
You could instead get 5 x 250GB discs and create a RAID-5 across them,
giving you a 1TB array but with the difference that you can have one
disc fail, and the array keeps working.

I am currently running my system off a RAID-1 mirror (software) and
Breezy handled the setup of that fine during installation.

HTH,

--
Anders Karlsson <trudheim at gmail.com>