[Wylug-help] Backup server, IDE+SATA and RAID

[Gary Stainburn]

Hi folks.

I'm looking at this again, but never got a reply.  Anyone got any comments?

Gary

On Thursday 24 January 2008 18:09, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> As some of you may remember I have set up an FC7 system with an IDE DVD-ROM
> and 3x500GB IDE drives running RAID1 for the boot partition and RAID5 for
> everything else.
>
> Unfortunately, this has not provided enough space to hold the volumes
> created by Bacula.
>
> I am reviewing the retention details, and the fileset definitions to try to
> reduce the storeage requirements, but this will not be enough.
>
> I am looking to add additional drives, but as all the IDE's are taken up I
> am looking at SATA drives.
>
> Can anyone see any pitfalls with added one new 500GB SATA drive to the
> system, with possible a second one at a later date?
>
> Obviously I will have to make sure the BIOS boot device is set right.
>
> Surely Linux will just see it as another block device and allow me to add
> it to the RAID array.
>
> If the new drive(s) are of a different size to the original 3, how will
> this affect the RAID and it's performance?
>
> Gary

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