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DIY NAS question for the *nix experts
I seem to be sinking under a pile of spare hard drives at the moment -
typically 2.5" 500GB ones. It would be nice to find a way of making use of them *cheaply*. It would be nice to build a NAS platform for use as a backup repository, and for perhaps archiving stuff like films. Performance is not that critical, but I would like fault tolerance. Not too fussed about uptime. So it needs to be a RAID setup of some sort that can survive any individual drive failure (e.g. RAID 5 or 6), but it can be shutdown for maintenance etc without any worries - so I don't need to worry about hot swap or redundant components. A small low power mobo in an old PC case could be a starting point, or for that matter, even as RaspPi 2 B or similar level single board computer, but that will soon run out of sata ports (or not have any to start with). One option that springs to mind would be a powered USB hub, and a bunch of drive caddies which would be a cheap way of adding lots of drives if required. That then raises the question of software to drive it... How workable would the various MD style RAID admin tools and file systems be at coping with drives mounted on mixed hardware interfaces - say a mix of SATA and USB? Has anyone tried multiple budget SATA cards on stock PC hardware? -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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