Hello all. I am looking to store a large amount of media: movies, tv, music, etc.
Speed isn't a huge concern as I don't think this will impact watching a movie, etc. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
I backup everything I can't afford to lose already so that really has no bearing on this.
All I want is a large disk solution, 5-10TB to store all of these files. The only thing I'm scared of from a redundancy standpoint is the mechanical failure of a drive.
Is software raid 5 a good way to protect against this? If so, what's the best software to use? Also, can a software raid 5 array be expanded in the future? (If not, I could always make a second array down the line.)
I'm pretty much roughly looking to do the software equivalent of what the Drobo does without getting locked into proprietary raid hardware which could fail. If the software solution isn't expandable like the Drobo, I can deal with that.
Thanks all.
Speed isn't a huge concern as I don't think this will impact watching a movie, etc. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
I backup everything I can't afford to lose already so that really has no bearing on this.
All I want is a large disk solution, 5-10TB to store all of these files. The only thing I'm scared of from a redundancy standpoint is the mechanical failure of a drive.
Is software raid 5 a good way to protect against this? If so, what's the best software to use? Also, can a software raid 5 array be expanded in the future? (If not, I could always make a second array down the line.)
I'm pretty much roughly looking to do the software equivalent of what the Drobo does without getting locked into proprietary raid hardware which could fail. If the software solution isn't expandable like the Drobo, I can deal with that.
Thanks all.