[mythtv-users] LVM RAID 5 partition schemes

[Andrew Close]

On Apr 6, 2005 1:59 PM, Milan Andric <mandric at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 6, 2005 11:46 AM, Jeff Simpson <llcooljeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Are all those drives going to fit in that case??
> >
> 
> It looks like I could according to the pic on newegg. if it don't have a floppy,
> just a dvd-r i can fit 5 drives.  Though i'm hoping 3 for the raid + 1
> for the OS
> wil do.
> 
> hopefully by the time i fill up a 3X300G Raid 5 i'll have moved on to
> a real backend ... and "have a house with a backyard and a tree".
> probly not ...

i have the same case.  it gets pretty tight in there and will get hot.
 i have a dvd drive and two HDs.  i do have decent cooling though and
it isn't too loud.
you can build a file server out of an older lower powered machine,
especially if you're using hardware RAID.  fileservers typically don't
need a lot of power.