[CentOS] Software RAID complete drives or individual partitions

Wed Mar 6 01:28:06 UTC 2013
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

On 3/5/2013 5:18 PM, Chris Weisiger wrote:
> I essentially configured the software raid to create a home server and not have to worry about individual drives. I've built a collection of several several gigs of music and pictures. Enough to look into a raid system. Plus it is alot cheaper than a hardware raid setup.
> Plus I want to do testing with it to possible use it for some of the clients that the business I work for do work for for basic file server services

I am using FreeNAS for my home fileserver, and really liking it. its a 
turnkey NAS oriented build of FreeBSD.  the OS itself boots from a 4GB 
USB stick, so ALL your disks can be in the data raid configuration (I'm 
using 4x3TB RAIDZ, which is equivalent to raid5). its entirely web managed.



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