post build addition of RAID 1 array for NAS

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I am interested in doing away with the poor quality NAS servers you can buy and put two additional disks in RAID 1 on my next build as storage post build which would behave in a similar fashion as a NAS server. How could this be done using debian?

Thanks.
 
Sorry what? You're binning a couple of NAS boxes and want to replace them with a linux box running Debian and you're wondering if you can add redundant disks at a later date? Sure no problem. I assume it will be a software solution you're looking for (not on-board, fakeraid and not proper hardware - as that wouldn't matter to the OS), in which case yes, definitely. Look at LVM.

EDIT: also what are you going to be using it for - is it a company thing or just for home? If it's a corp environment, then you will want to look into a proper raid card.
 
Yes, I would be looking to use software raid. Okay, thanks for the information link to Logical Volume Manager. Any idea how to use it or a good tutorial to what I need to do explicitly?
 
Thanks for the link but can someone give me some kind of help so I do not have to read an epic document? What would be helpful is an example directed towards my situation of setting up an additional RAID 1 storage post build? Surely there must be some command line arguments that can be used right? Is there an easy gui tool which I can use?
 
Looks like I will have to do some reading. I will post back regarding how I do this so that other forum members can benefit.
 
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