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    Yeah, there is definitely something to be said for well executed appended JBOD, but I like having a little having more control over what's actually going on. A well executed striped RAID (0,5,6,etc) will also give you a nice performance boost, which should increase as more drives are added....not the performance really makes much difference in my setup since I have a 1Gbps bottleneck at the network interface... It is much more of a pain to implement and manage a good RAID array, but I think it's worth it. Plus, since I use RAID-5, if any one drive in my array dies, I don't lose any data at all (assuming I get a new drive and populate it before any more drives fail). That's saved me a lot of trouble once already; I had one of my 1.5TB drives die a few months ago, and it was then that I stopped feeling bad about 'losing' one drive's worth of storage space (due to the RAID-5 parity)...it's a lot better to have to buy one more drive than to have to restore 1.5TB of data...if it's even possible to restore that data from another source.
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    <- want in the club!


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    Heheh, I was wondering when you were gonna show up, grevaeg. I've always wondered though; how do you have your space managed? (Also, I believe I said explaining that was a requirement ) I seem to remember you have the drives spread across multiple PCs in there? Do you have them network mounted and accessible as a single unit or what?

    On a different thought, I think I might make a small sig art logo that can mark members. (I just have to come up with a good idea for it....)
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    12 disks pc 1 - Raid 5
    12 disks pc 2 - Raid 5
    12 disks pc 3 - Raid 5

    All disks mapped on all 3 comps trough gigabit, screenshot will follow the day i decide to boot it up again

    Currently using my laptop / htpc 0.o

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    I'm assuming that's a software RAID? What OS are you running on them?
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    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on all of em, and yup, its software raid, beside the sas drives thats running stripe on a lsi 3041 SAS controller, was running win 2k3 on the server for awhile, but i dont really need the functions it provide, can easily run media server's and disk mapping on windows 7, and the new backup tool is actually quite nice 0.o

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    Ghey Midget pRon on it. Adding several moar 2 terabyte drives as soon as I get the painted new case back for it

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    Hey guys can I join?

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    Hahaha, I have more storage than that on my phone! (Ok, that in and of itself is rather ridiculous...)
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    Haha, I know it's ridiculous. I really need to upgrade. I'm just waiting for a job.

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