Super-Cheap RAID 5 NAS

[ReverendSlappy]

I really think I'm gonna do this for my home network...

http://www.tomsnetworking.com/2006/08/01/cheap_fast_diy_raid_5_nas/

I've got an old PC laying around, so all I'd need is the RAID controller and the drives. All told, it'd probably cost me about $500. The way I see it, you can't really beat ~1TB of fault-tolerant storage for less than $0.50 per GB.

Really I just wanted to pass along what is really a pretty cool implementation. But has anybody out there done something similar? Maybe better? And, does anybody have any experience with Ubuntu? Pros/Cons/Alternatives?

 

[TMetzinger]

Sure - on my network, aside from some Fibre-Channel arrays from Sun and a Hitachi 9970, I've got two old compaq 386 PCs with SCSI RAID cards driving multiple SCSI drives. I've put Linus, Solaris X86 on them as well as Windows OS' at different times. The new SATA raid cards will definitely do the job too.

You really can't beat having your RAID completely separate from the OS, so all the OS sees is one (or more) disks which never fail.

-tim