Help me design a home server for Photoshop work. Reliable, easy to expand, and cheap are the priorities. Lots of sub-questions inside.
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posted by scose
on Dec 27, 2011 -
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Please help me get my RAID 5 disks organized. I have two RAID 5 arrays that I feel I could make better use of.
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posted by santaliqueur
on Feb 4, 2011 -
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I have a server with a Perc5/i RAID controller and 8 drive bays. I'd like to use it primarily as a storage server, with the idea of buying 4 drives now and expanding later. I'd like to put ESXi on the server and OpenFiler (or FreeNas) ontop of that. I don't need any drive redudancy (there's an attached tape controller), but I'd like to be able to pop in a new drive and expand it like you'd be able to do with LVM. Is this possible?
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posted by geoff.
on May 11, 2010 -
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Can you recommend a NAS device with built-in multi-disk redundancy and support for a variety of network share protocols for a small office?
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posted by odinsdream
on Feb 17, 2010 -
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How can I recover data from two striped RAID drives if the enclosure is not responding? Is it possible to put them inside another enclosure and have it read the striped data correctly?
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posted by Magnakai
on Jan 8, 2010 -
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Tell me about Network Attached Storage ( NAS )? In particular what current manufactuers should I avoid for a typical 1 terabyte (or greater) RAID array? I'm also interested in general information and pitfalls for NAS devices and implementations.
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posted by loquacious
on Aug 10, 2008 -
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I am trying to find external storage that is accessible via wireless networking. One important caveat is that it has to be RAID-capable.
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posted by fusinski
on Feb 12, 2008 -
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I'm hoping you can help me find a RAID 5 capable enclosure without disks, with some further requirements inside, for my in construction media server storage.
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posted by John Kenneth Fisher
on Aug 4, 2007 -
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What's the most sensible way to add redundant storage to an existing Linux system using LVM?
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posted by odinsdream
on Oct 19, 2006 -
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What's the best way of adding a Terabyte of reliable, contiguous, archive-quality storage to my system? By 'best' I mean Toyota Corolla as opposed to Hummer.
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posted by unSane
on Mar 22, 2006 -
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I have 6 Western Digital PATA 250GB Hard Drives and I'd like to build a Raid 5 Server. Has anyone done anything similar and have any advice they would like to impart on what components worked (or didn't work) for them?
posted by moseymose
on Dec 13, 2005 -
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The 2x250Gb RAID1 array on my desktop system (WinXP) started throwing up 'Delayed write failure' errors and forcing mirroring on reboot. I unplugged the HDs and reinstalled Windows, but suspect a hardware failure. What's the best way to run diagnostics while minimising the risk of corrupted data being mirrored across? Plug in each drive separately, detach the array, or re-mirror and hope for the best?
posted by holgate
on Apr 5, 2005 -
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Backup / Storage: I have a picture of an ideal product in my head. It connects via USB or Firewire, it contains two IDE drives that mirror each others. They're hot swappable, so if one fails, you just by another standard IDE drive of the same size and throw it in. All this is transparent to the machine accessing the device. It's under $300. Does this exist?
posted by weston
on Mar 22, 2005 -
6 answers
