Hi guys
I'm just wondering how to go setting up a few servers I have at home, these will be mainly for WCG but also I'd like to get some storage setup on them to allow for rather big dumps of any backups I have from my HomeServer (I'm kinda running low on space for that one lol) but I didn't really know what to do with regards to the raid setup.
I was toying with the idea of setting up a Raid 5, but if I am correct in saying, Raid 5 is kinda of frowned upon, so I'd like to listen and see what others might suggest
I was considering to install Linux Mint on it (if that works) and then use it as a cruncher and a file server..
Could anyone suggest anything else I could use?
Drive setup whilst I remember is currently
2 x 600Gb SAS 15k drives for possibly the OS
6 x 2Tb SAS 7.2k drives for storage.
I could cut down the OS as I don't think that would really need to be raid'ed but again, I'm really open to suggestions at this point
Look forward to hearing from you all

I'm just wondering how to go setting up a few servers I have at home, these will be mainly for WCG but also I'd like to get some storage setup on them to allow for rather big dumps of any backups I have from my HomeServer (I'm kinda running low on space for that one lol) but I didn't really know what to do with regards to the raid setup.
I was toying with the idea of setting up a Raid 5, but if I am correct in saying, Raid 5 is kinda of frowned upon, so I'd like to listen and see what others might suggest

I was considering to install Linux Mint on it (if that works) and then use it as a cruncher and a file server..
Could anyone suggest anything else I could use?
Drive setup whilst I remember is currently
2 x 600Gb SAS 15k drives for possibly the OS
6 x 2Tb SAS 7.2k drives for storage.
I could cut down the OS as I don't think that would really need to be raid'ed but again, I'm really open to suggestions at this point

Look forward to hearing from you all
