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Best raid setup?

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CefiroZ

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I've got two 80GB drives that I'm going to turn into a RAID1 array to use as storage for music, personal files, etc. to make sure I don't lose any more data due to drive failures in the future. I also have a 160GB drive that will eventually dual boot linux and windows (right now it is just doing windows). My question is what is the best way to set up my RAID array so that I can access it from both OSs? Is formatting it in FAT32 the best way?
 
CefiroZ said:
My question is what is the best way to set up my RAID array so that I can access it from both OSs? Is formatting it in FAT32 the best way?
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Put the drives in an entirely separate machine and access it over a network. It won't matter what filesystem you use, then. That is your best option, in my opinion, if you want access from Windows and Linux.
 
Bones said:
Put the drives in an entirely separate machine and access it over a network. It won't matter what filesystem you use, then. That is your best option, in my opinion, if you want access from Windows and Linux.
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Would running this separate machine on Linux or Windows be the easiest? I would assume (and prefer) Linux, but you never know. I've never set up any sort of file server before, so if anyone has a good tutorial link please post it!
 
http://www.freenas.org/ If you want to setup a universally accesible raid array, and are able to put the 2 80s into a seperate box. Well then FreeNas is the best option for you, because network file system is able to be used by an OS.
 
I've heard fairly lousy things about the reliability of *BSD's software raid stack. Linux's is stable in my experience, as long as the underlying sata card's drivers are good.

 
Doing the network based storage would be good. You could actually store things on your regular machine and just back up across the network once in a while. It will not protect you from lightning strikes, fires, etc. Your best bet might be to use your 160 drive for OS, apps and put data on an 80Gb partition. You can back that up onto one of those 80Gb drives in your machine. Get an external USB enclosure for the other one and back up your data onto it once a month and keep it at work/grandmas. That way, your house can burn to the ground and you'll be fine. That is kind of extreme, but it gives you disaster recovery as well as data protection. For just the network storage, buy an old machine, raid-1 the discs and you'll be fine.
 
Another option is to run Linux (or Windows) in a virtual environment -- e.g. VMWare.
 
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