[BBLISA] Fwd: Re: Fileserver opinion

[Miles Fidelman]

Daniel Feenberg wrote:
> A simple Linux or FreeBSD box with 12 2TB drives can be assembled for
> $3,000. I wouldn't put a RAID 5 on it (because Linux and FreeBSD don't do
> a good job of reconstruction after a drive failure - see
> http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/linux-nas-raid.html ) but a RAID 1 will
> provide reliable, but not fast storage. Suppose that the formatted storage
> capacity is a third the total drive capacity - that makes the cost about
> $375 per TB.
>    
I've found RAID10 to be a reasonable option under Linux as well.

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