Hi,
I plan on wiping/reformatting my system soon, as it is getting bogged down. At the same time, I would like to implement a storage solution with the following characteristics:
1) Fault Tolerance - if one of the drives fails, I want to be able to continue using the machine.
2) Expandable - I thought 320 gigs would be enough - not so. Since I will likely fill up the new storage limit in the future at some time, I would like to be able to simply add a new drive, rather than have to back everything up, delete the array, and rebuild with the new disk.
I should also mention I plan on partitioning the drive into two parts: System and Data. The Data partition is the one I would like to be expandable.
I thought a RAID5 array would be ideal, but I've read that it is not necessarily expandable - though different posts claim different things.
Is there a solution - RAID or otherwise - that allows for such a configuration?
Motherboard: Asus P5B Deluxe (with on-board RAID controller)
I plan on wiping/reformatting my system soon, as it is getting bogged down. At the same time, I would like to implement a storage solution with the following characteristics:
1) Fault Tolerance - if one of the drives fails, I want to be able to continue using the machine.
2) Expandable - I thought 320 gigs would be enough - not so. Since I will likely fill up the new storage limit in the future at some time, I would like to be able to simply add a new drive, rather than have to back everything up, delete the array, and rebuild with the new disk.
I should also mention I plan on partitioning the drive into two parts: System and Data. The Data partition is the one I would like to be expandable.
I thought a RAID5 array would be ideal, but I've read that it is not necessarily expandable - though different posts claim different things.
Is there a solution - RAID or otherwise - that allows for such a configuration?
Motherboard: Asus P5B Deluxe (with on-board RAID controller)