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A few years back I decided that since I had a left over motherboard, CPU, case, and some other parts, I should expand my horizons and build myself a server. I had a Fedora Core 3 DVD that came with a Linux Bible book, so I bought 30 gig drive for the OS, and a pair of 256 gig drives for the RAID. I decided on a simple RAID 1 - mirroring the data on one of the big drives with the other. I threw in the DVD, booted it, assembled the RAID and away we went.
It's never really worked that well. Both me and my housemate have occasional problems connecting to it. I've always assumed the problem was my hacked and shoddy SAMBA configuration. However, now that I've actually sat down and looked over some documentation, I think I screwed up the RAID configuration. Bigtime. Also, having the power cut from it suddenly when the plumbers were screwing with the power probably didn't help matters much.
Hey, it was an experiment... but I feel like such an idiot.
So, I'm thinking a total rebuild of the RAID is called for. I'll need another IDE controller card, too - which are only about 30 bucks. Since Fedore Core 3 is getting really long in the tooth, I might as well switch to Debian - it's what I know best.
I'll need to do more research first - most instructions that deal with setting up RAIDs seem to deal with having the operating system on one drive, then setting up part of the RAID as a partition on the same drive.
I'm using a separate drive for the OS - since this is a storage device I really don't care if I lose the OS drive... it's the data drives that are important.
Another option is getting an external USB drive. For about 150 bucks you can get a 1 terabyte hard drive with a nifty enclosure. The advantage of the server is speed - you can back stuff up at Ethernet speed. The advantage with the external drive is portability - you can easily take it off site for safe keeping.
Of course, having both is totally boss...
-m
It's never really worked that well. Both me and my housemate have occasional problems connecting to it. I've always assumed the problem was my hacked and shoddy SAMBA configuration. However, now that I've actually sat down and looked over some documentation, I think I screwed up the RAID configuration. Bigtime. Also, having the power cut from it suddenly when the plumbers were screwing with the power probably didn't help matters much.
Hey, it was an experiment... but I feel like such an idiot.
So, I'm thinking a total rebuild of the RAID is called for. I'll need another IDE controller card, too - which are only about 30 bucks. Since Fedore Core 3 is getting really long in the tooth, I might as well switch to Debian - it's what I know best.
I'll need to do more research first - most instructions that deal with setting up RAIDs seem to deal with having the operating system on one drive, then setting up part of the RAID as a partition on the same drive.
I'm using a separate drive for the OS - since this is a storage device I really don't care if I lose the OS drive... it's the data drives that are important.
Another option is getting an external USB drive. For about 150 bucks you can get a 1 terabyte hard drive with a nifty enclosure. The advantage of the server is speed - you can back stuff up at Ethernet speed. The advantage with the external drive is portability - you can easily take it off site for safe keeping.
Of course, having both is totally boss...
-m
