Re: Backup Server RAID Suggestions - Resend

2008-09-11 Thread Robin Laing
Mike McMullen wrote: Thank you Gilboa and James! Here's a little more information. Someone gave me the de-branded HP Athlon 64 X2 PC. So I have a free PC I'd like to turn into a NAS server. This doesn't have to be pretty just functional and semi-cheap. Since there isn't room in the PC case for

RE: Backup Server RAID Suggestions - Resend

2008-09-11 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 09:13 -0700, Mike McMullen wrote: > Thank you Gilboa and James! > > Here's a little more information. > > Someone gave me the de-branded HP Athlon 64 X2 PC. So I have a free PC > I'd like to turn into a NAS server. This doesn't have to be pretty just > functional and semi-ch

Re: Backup Server RAID Suggestions - Resend

2008-09-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Gilboa Davara wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 06:35 -0700, Mike McMullen wrote: Hi All, I am trying to build a NAS server based on Fedora 9. I will be using a de-branded HP Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core with 2GB RAM and two 250GB drives mirrored for the OS stuff and a few apps. That's a bit light on R

Re: Backup Server RAID Suggestions - Resend

2008-09-08 Thread Les Mikesell
Mike McMullen wrote: Thank you Gilboa and James! Here's a little more information. Someone gave me the de-branded HP Athlon 64 X2 PC. So I have a free PC I'd like to turn into a NAS server. This doesn't have to be pretty just functional and semi-cheap. Since there isn't room in the PC case for

RE: Backup Server RAID Suggestions - Resend

2008-09-08 Thread Mike McMullen
Thank you Gilboa and James! Here's a little more information. Someone gave me the de-branded HP Athlon 64 X2 PC. So I have a free PC I'd like to turn into a NAS server. This doesn't have to be pretty just functional and semi-cheap. Since there isn't room in the PC case for the drives, let alone

Re: Backup Server RAID Suggestions - Resend

2008-09-08 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 06:35 -0700, Mike McMullen wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to build a NAS server based on Fedora 9. > > I will be using a de-branded HP Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core with 2GB RAM and > two 250GB drives mirrored for the OS stuff and a few apps. Depending on your usage case (random

Re: Backup Server RAID Suggestions - Resend

2008-09-08 Thread James Kosin
Mike McMullen wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to build a NAS server based on Fedora 9. > > I will be using a de-branded HP Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core with 2GB RAM and > two 250GB drives mirrored for the OS stuff and a few apps. > > I would like to add some type of raid storage box to it with about

Backup Server RAID Suggestions - Resend

2008-09-08 Thread Mike McMullen
Hi All, I am trying to build a NAS server based on Fedora 9. I will be using a de-branded HP Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core with 2GB RAM and two 250GB drives mirrored for the OS stuff and a few apps. I would like to add some type of raid storage box to it with about 5 1TB drives using raid 5 unless ther