So I have a 10 year old computer standing around, that I’ve previously used as a router. Now that I have a TV I thought it would be nice to have a computer connected to it, and since I have several computers, having a central storage ponint for files would be nice addition as well. While the computer is 10 years old, it has an Intel core 2 duo E6600, an ATI Radeon X1950 pro, and 2 GB of RAM, so it should be able to play 1080p material without to much trouble.

So I figured I would like some sort of RAID structure for this in case of a drive failure. The plan was to run a RAID 5 structure with 3 1 TB drives. This way I can get 2 TB of storage with redundancy in case one of the drives should fail. I also use an old 30 GB drive for running the OS off, since it’s so much easier booting linux from a non-RAID partition.

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