NAS or RAID

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 01:45:03AM -0700, Justin Weissig wrote:
> Sure, I've build some.
> 
> System: P4 2.8GHz with 1GB RAM.
> Drives: 4 x MAXTOR 300GB SATA 7200RPM 16MB
> 
> Then pick your raid card: Highpoint, PROMISE, 3Ware.
> 
> Some people might say not to use hardware raid and just use software
> raid but hardware offers features that are easily to use when things
> go wrong.

Nothing wrong with hardware raid, except it can be slower.
Unfortunately many cards from highpoint and promise are not "hardware"
raid, but just software raid in a bios, causing lots of confusion for
people.

> Something like the above will give you a little less than 900GB in a
> RAID 5 for around $2100.

Why so little space for so much money?

400GB $330 each * 4= 1200GB raid5 for $1320
Add cost of 4 port raid card which can't be that much.  Now if you mean
$2100 for the whole system, then it seems reasonable although
technically a leftover P2 or so with a hardware raid card and those
drives would be able to be a perfectly good fileserver.  The P4 is
certainly beyond overkill and a semptron would be way cheaper (and use
quite a bit less power too).

> Great for office NAS server. Install samba with winbind and you have a
> drop in replacement for many of the windows options.

Lennart Sorensen
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