Talon’s (Micah) Blog

I’m constantly bouncing on less than 10% free space on my file server. And I’ve got 1.3TB’s of usable space (850gigs is actual raid 1 space). So I just ordered a new mobo with 6 sata ports and onboard nvidia raid 5 (I know its cheap and fake raid, I wont get much performance and it will use CPU cycles for data transfer but I just need a raid 5).

Bought 3 more 500gig sata hard drives (to go with the 3 already in it). 1 will remain out of the server as a stand by spare in case 1 fails I can slap in a new 1 immediately to rebuild the array.

So after format size, raid 5 I should have 1.9TB of usable space, more than doubling my raid storage space and being relieved 350gigs of it will be fault tolerant instead of running on a single 500gig drive with no backup.