On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Rob Kampen wrote: > Gé Weijers wrote: > I'd support the above hardware as a minimum - it appears most will be reading, thus software RAID1 > will work just fine - If there are many different files, I'd go for more smaller disks - say 8 by > 500G in RAID1, thus the ability to spread the files over more spindles as this may become the > bottleneck if all the files are on a single 2T drive. Using 8 drives is going to significantly increase the cost, because you'd need 8 SATA interfaces and 8 drive bays. Otherwise I agree. A RAID-10 setup (striped mirrors) will probably give the best performance. Gé