Linux software RAID + Hardware Q

zetec452 · 4 Sep 2006 at 22:38

Hi,

I've got an old celeron 633 box running as a small file server, with 256mb ram. I was thinking of popping my SATA PCI card in it and running two 120gig drives over RAID0. So have a 40 gig root drive and a 240 gig raid0 drive.

Is it going to run like a dog with three legs missing?

Its got ubuntu server on it.

Cheers.

Jon

zetec452 · 4 Sep 2006 at 22:58

Load is ok I think. Its got MySQL, Apache, Samba, FTP, Munin (can take off). Its only for a couple of people. Will have about 200gigs of music and files on it.

22:57:28 up 3:57, 2 users, load average: 2.19, 2.05, 1.86

Thats running an rsync backup? Never really been sure on what the load averages mean lol. Whats the highest number?

zetec452 · 5 Sep 2006 at 12:46

Interesting stuff.

I've now pretty much sold the three 40gig drives that were in the unit so will probably give the raid a go. I don't have much to lose other than my spare time.

zetec452 · 5 Sep 2006 at 20:48

I backup to an external 250gig usb drive so im not worried about raid0. I've got three froms of backup

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So far the raid is working well. Just moving some data around as we speak. It's working a treat.

The main reason for having raid0 is to just create one big share. I can't be bothered to have multiple shares. The drives im using have been raid0'd for a year or so now without a glitch.