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Highpoint 2240

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i have been reading on how to do a raid5 server with linux and a few different Highpoint cards. i do have a few questions reguarding sharing and how to make the raid. first i suppose is to ask is how hard is it to set up a raid 5 with the Highpoint 2240? it says it will run linux, so i trust that it will (after many people recommending the Highpoint 8 ports, but for me thats just not enough drive space :p ) my next question is how do i share the files in linux to either another linux machine or windows machine? when im at LANs, i want to share all that i have, and have plenty of space to get stuff from other people (hopefully i'll have enough space for that). i do plan on using ubuntu because it is so easy to use (basically quoting from their site).

many thanks.
 
For that price you could get *four* AOC-SAT2-MV8s. Two of those is all you need to get 16 ports for LSR; they also come with cables, which would be about $60 for the Highpoint.

As for "how to share files": the standard way is with Samba. This makes your Linux machine appear on a lan just like a Windows one does; you go to "\\machinename\share" in an explorer window, and files show up. You can also run an FTP, NFS, SCP, whatever strikes your fancy.

 
as far as that device you showed me, it is possible to raid all the drives over 2 devices? i still need to learn more about raid to know something like that.

i've search some on how to do samba, but never could really figure it out. im testing it at work using ubuntu 5.10, but i suppose this would be something i should go to the ubuntu forums to get more answers for. but if anyone is able to help me, that would be awesome.
 
With software raid, sure. The devices don't do the raid, the OS does. So the cards don't need to support raid.

Try a minimalist smb.conf and see where that gets you.
Code: 
[global]
workgroup = WKG
netbios name = MYNAME
[share1]
path = /tmp
[share2]
path = /my_shared_folder
comment = Some random files

 
protias said:
as far as that device you showed me, it is possible to raid all the drives over 2 devices? i still need to learn more about raid to know something like that.

i've search some on how to do samba, but never could really figure it out. im testing it at work using ubuntu 5.10, but i suppose this would be something i should go to the ubuntu forums to get more answers for. but if anyone is able to help me, that would be awesome.
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You can RAID drives over multiple controllers using a software RAID. The kernel isn't going to look at what controller the drive is on. You could make an array from sd[a-z] if you have enough controllers + drives.

Look up mdadm (what I use) or EVMS (I think that's what u_m recommends) for Linux software arrays.
 
Personally I find not relying on LSR comforting. No matter what distro I run, I install the HPT drivers and XFS tools and have a fully working setup. I never have to worry about my config files.
 
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