what drives for RAID setup?

31st July 2005, 23:03

I'm planning to buy some new hard drives, and put them in software RAID5 under linux. the mainboard is an a7n8x-deluxe, so it has 2 ATA channels and 2 SATA channels.

for 300-400€, what would be the best choice of drives (how many, how big)?

DUR0N · 1st August 2005, 08:34

WD200GB RAID edition, ~€100/drive

1st August 2005, 11:15

2*SATA + 1 or 2 on PATA, or buy another PCI SATA card?

jmke · 1st August 2005, 12:36

2*SATA

DUR0N · 1st August 2005, 12:39

Quote:

Originally posted by jmke
2*SATA

RAID5 had a three disk minimum.

jmke · 1st August 2005, 12:40

woops, missed the RAID5 part

187(V)URD@ · 1st August 2005, 17:01

what about hitachi 250GB ?

Sidney · 1st August 2005, 17:15

Hitachi = IBM
Go with the longest warranty.

31st July 2005, 23:03	#1
TeuS Posts: n/a	what drives for RAID setup? I'm planning to buy some new hard drives, and put them in software RAID5 under linux. the mainboard is an a7n8x-deluxe, so it has 2 ATA channels and 2 SATA channels. for 300-400€, what would be the best choice of drives (how many, how big)?

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