Is this a good idea? (Building a home server)

[cyberfish]

I just finished writing an article/guide on building a Linux-based NAS, that you might find interesting.

Piece of Mind » Blog Archive » DIY Network-Attached Storage on Linux - "Have you moo-ed today?"

[manasij7479]

I just finished writing an article/guide on building a Linux-based NAS, that you might find interesting.

Piece of Mind » Blog Archive » DIY Network-Attached Storage on Linux - "Have you moo-ed today?"

Thanks..especially about the RAID of which I had almost no solid idea.

[cyberfish]

I would have used 3x1TB in RAID-5 if I can afford another drive at this time. The chance of 2 out of 3 drives failing at the same time is almost 0, and that's 2TB space instead of just 1TB with 2x1TB in RAID-1.

[manasij7479]

Good idea, If I can find a few 500 Gigs' disks cheaper than 2x1Tb, I'll go for that.

[cyberfish]

Unfortunately now is really not a good time to be buying harddrives... I remember buying my 1TB drives for about $70 each 2 years ago. Now it's almost double that due to the shortage.

[manasij7479]

Unfortunately now is really not a good time to be buying harddrives... I remember buying my 1TB drives for about $70 each 2 years ago. Now it's almost double that due to the shortage.

I'll be doing this in May....the situation should improve, given that much time.