Chad Perrin wrote:
> Brice Burgess wrote:
>
>> In an effort to keep things simple, here's an overview of what I
>> envision doing:
>>
>> ----
>> I'm planning to build an aluminum chasis to hold 4 3.5 in IDE 120GB
>> hard drives. The drives will be connected to 2 IEEE 1394b
>> bridgeboards, and then to a 1394b controller card inside a Linux box.
>> I will then use Linux Software RAID5 to create a single 360GB disk
>> out of the 4 drives.
>> ----
>>
>> With that said.. I know there's a lot of potential problems. Can
>> mdadm handle drives over a 1394b link? Do the drives need to be
>> connected to seperate host adapters? etc. etc.
>>
>> Has anyone dealt with this situation, or have better ideas about
>> building a cheap DIY external RAID system under Linux?
>
>
> Depending on what that would end up costing you, it might make more
> sense to simply purchase one of these:
>
> http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10118
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Are the Lacie drives redundant though? ie. RAID-1 ??
What I'm most interested in is redundancy.
Brice
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