I need to create a video editing storage solution after my move to much larger HD files. I want to do RAID 5 because of its ability to rebuild and the fact that in a four disk solution i can get 3X the speed of a single 7200 rpm drive. right now i have two RAID 0's in my mac pro and am booting off of a esata external enclosure. after looking at everything i have decided i would like to put four 1TB drives in my antec 900 case with a phenom x3, 4gb of ram and a gigabit NIC. my mac pro has gigabit ethernet also.
Antec 900 PC:
500 GB 5400 RPM 2.5" SATA DRIVE with UBUNTU 11.10 (soon 12.04)
RAID 5:
1TB Hitachi 7200 RPM
1TB Seagate 7200 RPM
1TB Seagate 7200 RPM
1TB Western Digital Caviar Black 7200RPM
Mac Pro:
250GB Western Digital SATA boot drive with OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8
RAID 0:
500GB Seagate
500GB Seagate
my plans are to use the 1tb raid in the mac pro as the fastest data then move projects when im idle with them to the pc raid 5 for speed and redundancy. will i be able to get the potential speed from the drives by limiting myself to gigabit ethernet? also would it be smart for me to edit straight off of the network drive? would it be possible to use both gigabit ethernet ports on my mac pro, and add another gigabit NIC to the pc to double the transfer rate? how would i do load balancing on the mac and ubuntu computers?
my other question, and i know im being needy so thank you to anyone who has taken the time to read down to this point, is how do i setup a RAID 5 in ubuntu as im only a linux novice, and how do i set it up as fully shared network storage.
thanks to anyone who can help.
Antec 900 PC:
500 GB 5400 RPM 2.5" SATA DRIVE with UBUNTU 11.10 (soon 12.04)
RAID 5:
1TB Hitachi 7200 RPM
1TB Seagate 7200 RPM
1TB Seagate 7200 RPM
1TB Western Digital Caviar Black 7200RPM
Mac Pro:
250GB Western Digital SATA boot drive with OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8
RAID 0:
500GB Seagate
500GB Seagate
my plans are to use the 1tb raid in the mac pro as the fastest data then move projects when im idle with them to the pc raid 5 for speed and redundancy. will i be able to get the potential speed from the drives by limiting myself to gigabit ethernet? also would it be smart for me to edit straight off of the network drive? would it be possible to use both gigabit ethernet ports on my mac pro, and add another gigabit NIC to the pc to double the transfer rate? how would i do load balancing on the mac and ubuntu computers?
my other question, and i know im being needy so thank you to anyone who has taken the time to read down to this point, is how do i setup a RAID 5 in ubuntu as im only a linux novice, and how do i set it up as fully shared network storage.
thanks to anyone who can help.