Building A New Home Backup Server/Store.

[tickmike]

Building A New Home Backup Server/Store.

Since my 5 year old backup NAS is full 2 x2TB drives, and the desktop pent III is getting old now (some bulging capacitors !) I bought a new 10 drive bay space case ( with more capacity ), and 4 new 2TB drives. PS and Gigabyte GA-H170M-DS3H MB with 6 x SATA ports.

 

I will use my two old 2TB dives out of my old unit and another SATA HD for the PCLinuxOS Darkstar OS to run it.

 

I want to set this machine up with 6 x 2TB 3.5" hard drives for now, Then using two raid cards have spare capacity for expansion if needed.

 

Three Raid sets all 'Raid 1' Mirror.

Raid set 1 = (my two old hard drives ) SATA port 0 & 1 on the MB (not fitted yet !).

Raid set 2 = 2x2TB drives SATA port 2 & 3

Raid set 3 = 2 x 2TB drives Sata ports 4 & 5

 

I have got in to the MB Raid set up screen and can see the four 2TB drives, set up Raid set 2 ok using ports 2&3 , but then trying to set another raid set 3 up with Raid 1 mirror it will not let me set it up.

 

Any ideas why ?.

 

Can you normally set up more than one mirror raid set on a motherboard ?.

 

or Should I just forget the MB raid set up and use Mdadm ?.

Edited December 29, 2017 by tickmike

[powdarrmonkey]

If you're only doing mirrors, mdraid is fine.