Home RAID Array
On Friday I finally got all the bits together for me new home RAID array. This one is a Sans Digital TR4M 4-space ESATA enclosure plus 4 Western Digital GP 1TB drives. Building it as Raid5 it looks like the total capacity will be 2.8TB (as the computer measures it, not as the drive companies market it).
I started it formatting, skipping the “quick format” option. That was over 24 hours ago and its at 36% right now. Which points out one of the biggest problems with large drive arrays (or any kind of large storage)- if you aren’t careful managing it can be a total mess. This does make me a bit happy that I decided to go with just the 4-drive array rather than holding out for a full 8- the bigger one would be even more of a mess to manage at times.
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