Jim Green put forth on 2/18/2011 10:36 PM: > Hello! > I have a laptop with 120G harddrive, 2x320G external harddrive, I > don't have a desktop. > > Now I am doing something serious storing some huge historical data to > mysql database and want to have some better storage solution(I hate > the two external harddrives I bought 4 years ago, need to power them > on individually and connect with laptop each time I need to use data > in them). > > I have two options > 1, buy a desktop with 4x2T harddrives and use lvm on raid1, I need the > redundancy of data.
Why 4*2TB drives? Unless this is a MythTV server that's total overkill, and more than you need to spend. And then you have the 512/4096 sector size mismatch issue if you go with WD's 2TB green drives which murders performance. I highly discourage use of the WD green drives. > 2, buy some independent storage like NAS, buy another desktop with > small harddrive to access the NAS, debian installed on NAS and desktop > of course. > > what do you think would be a better solution for me? I like the NAS > idea that storage is independent so I can keep the NAS even if I > upgrade my desktops, but the con is I need to buy separate NAS.. For $370 USD + shipping you can build your own basic yet expandable NFS/CIFS server with fault tolerance, that will likely out perform a cheap off the shelf NAS box. The figure above also includes the price of a quality inexpensive 5 port GbE switch and all requires cables and wiring. Unless you really _need_ a huge amount of space right now and multi spindle performance, I'd go with two mirrored 1TB drives to keep costs down. The figure above includes 2x1TB HDS drives. Here's a parts list description with the Newegg links below. Quality InWin ATX Black pedestal Server chassis w/ 5 tool free 3.5" HDD bays and excellent airflow 450 watt PSU with 120mm fan and 4 SATA power connectors Gigabyte socket AM3 mobo with 4 SATA II connectors 2.8 GHz 45 watt single core AMD CPU 2 GB dual channel memory kit 2 x HDS Deskstar 1 TB SATA II 7.2k rpm HDDs DVD ROM drive 2 SATA cables (always have a spare in case one is bad) 5 port desktop gigabit switch 2 14 ft. Cat 5e patch cables Grand total just less than $370 USD for quality kit. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811108237 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817822002 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128454 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103888 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134637 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145304 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118031 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812200116 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833156250 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812196386 -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d60526d.7030...@hardwarefreak.com
