wi11iamedward
December 17th, 2009, 04:54 AM
Hello all,
First off thank you all for your help. Second, I will apologize for any comments that I make that are beyond noob.
Here's the situation that brought me here; I have a PC that over the past year has been built, rebuilt, and done again. This was due to hard drive failures, Vista installs gone bad and many other things so here I am. Now with a new plan and never having used a Linux install in years I am really overwhelmed.
Here's the plan; Setup hardware Raid 5 (or 0+1 if you can show me how) over four 1Tb WD Caviar Green drives. On a separate 1Tb Seagate Barracuda outside the array to install Ubuntu Desktop. After ALL this is accomplished then I will run VMWare Server II where the bulk of my actual development/programming, etc will be done.
My question is this... I can't find a Raid control for Ubuntu associated to my MB, and should I look into the option of installing Raid 0+1 over 5? If so, how in the world do I go about this. :confused: Thanks all! PC specs are below...
Motherboard: P5E3 Premium/WiFi-AP@n
Processor: Intell Pentium 2.66 Quad
Ram: 4 x Corsair 1024Mb 133MHz 9-9-9-24
Harddrive(s): 4 x WD Caviar Green 1Tb
1 x Seagate Barracuda 1Tb
Monitor: HP LP3065 (HP 30in HDMI/DVI in)
Sound Card: On board
Graphics Card: Asus EAH3870X2/G/3DHTI/1G
Nic: Killer Nic M1
Power Supply: Antec 850
Other: Manhattan All-In One card reader
TV Wonder 650 Combo PCIE Tuner Card (unused)
Waccom Tablet 6x8
ThermalTake Dual X Drive bay
Logtech 5.1 Stereo
Logtech Bluetooth mouse + cradle
Logtech Usb Keyboard (run thru usb to Cat5 converter)
Belkin Usb 7 port hub
First off thank you all for your help. Second, I will apologize for any comments that I make that are beyond noob.
Here's the situation that brought me here; I have a PC that over the past year has been built, rebuilt, and done again. This was due to hard drive failures, Vista installs gone bad and many other things so here I am. Now with a new plan and never having used a Linux install in years I am really overwhelmed.
Here's the plan; Setup hardware Raid 5 (or 0+1 if you can show me how) over four 1Tb WD Caviar Green drives. On a separate 1Tb Seagate Barracuda outside the array to install Ubuntu Desktop. After ALL this is accomplished then I will run VMWare Server II where the bulk of my actual development/programming, etc will be done.
My question is this... I can't find a Raid control for Ubuntu associated to my MB, and should I look into the option of installing Raid 0+1 over 5? If so, how in the world do I go about this. :confused: Thanks all! PC specs are below...
Motherboard: P5E3 Premium/WiFi-AP@n
Processor: Intell Pentium 2.66 Quad
Ram: 4 x Corsair 1024Mb 133MHz 9-9-9-24
Harddrive(s): 4 x WD Caviar Green 1Tb
1 x Seagate Barracuda 1Tb
Monitor: HP LP3065 (HP 30in HDMI/DVI in)
Sound Card: On board
Graphics Card: Asus EAH3870X2/G/3DHTI/1G
Nic: Killer Nic M1
Power Supply: Antec 850
Other: Manhattan All-In One card reader
TV Wonder 650 Combo PCIE Tuner Card (unused)
Waccom Tablet 6x8
ThermalTake Dual X Drive bay
Logtech 5.1 Stereo
Logtech Bluetooth mouse + cradle
Logtech Usb Keyboard (run thru usb to Cat5 converter)
Belkin Usb 7 port hub