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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: wsmeurope on February 18, 2007, 11:57:39 PM
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I want to use SME 7.1 as an multi media server. I use to store my DVD's files on my Media Center computer (running MS MCE 2005).
I have two 500Go SATA hard drives and I want to get 1To of them. MS XP allow to make one big disk with two smaller disks.
Is there a way to get the same result with SME?
If not I'll have 2 x 500Go. I read somewhere if I don't want the two disk to be automatically set in Raid1 mode, I must install the first disk and the second after the server setup. Can somebody confirm?
Storage quantity is more important for me than security, as almost files stored are used for entertainment, not for business.
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at install, type "sme noraid" en hit enter
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If your motherboard can do so, you can try to set up a raid0 (stripping)
It boosts your HDD (2 hdds = 2 times faster)... But you must be aware that if one disk fails, you loose all data !
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Thanks,
I can understand No Raid is different than Raid0.
Raid0 setup look good for me, thanks to Cool34000, but my drives are not connected on the motherboard, they are on a PCI SATA controler (Sweex) http://www.sweex.com/PU100
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Hi,
considering that you wrote that data security is not your main issue, you have many way to do this, however, I would suggest you separate your system and your datas :
- small disk for SME (standard install : degrated raid1 + LVM)
- larger RAID 0 array on your 2 sata disks (mdadm --create /dev/md3 --level=raid0 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 )
Otherwise you might also perform the installation on a single disk and then grow your main-vg over the two disks (pvcreate , vgextend, lvextend, resize2fs)
G.
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You mean it's possible to make a SME config like :
1 x IDE 80Go for system, ftp mail etc.
1 x 1To (2 x 500Go Raid0 SATA) for huge multimedia centent
As everyone overthere is French, shall we move to French section. :wink:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=35806.msg157405#msg157405
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As everyone overthere is French, shall we move to French section. :wink:
Sorry, but i am a dumbas danish ignorant F***, who don't know french. :oops: Could you bear over with me and put this in english? Please, oui oui??
I think this good topich is of use for many, i have seen many questions like it in the past, and now with SME7 there seem to be better options for the case, right ?
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Well, i was just trying with a little humor....
What i mean is that, if you guys make some kind of howto about this:
You mean it's possible to make a SME config like :
1 x IDE 80Go for system, ftp mail etc.
1 x 1To (2 x 500Go Raid0 SATA) for huge multimedia centent
Then it would be great to get that in english. That's all :wink:
Per
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I agree with you, but neither English or Bash is my mother tong, and It help me "talking French". Anyway we'll come back here as everything is OK.
Thanks again for your help, Appreciate.
Chris
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Hello Per,
I do agree, since we start in english we should have go on the same way. Many non FR speaking people have more skills than I and other ideas than mine.
I though most of the part were already said here ... but let's summarize :
If ones matter is getting large storage devices you have different approach :
- use RAID5 array : you can aggregate many physical disk devices in a large logical one with redundancy mecanisms. This redundancy costs about one disk capacity : 100MB for a 3x100MB array
- use RAID0 array : you are stripping your data over different physical disk devices in a large logical one *without* any redundancy
this is for the "physical" aspects of the problem : you 'll have to consider your newly create disk array as a single large device.
Then you have to consider the logical part of the things :
- you can use the old approach : create logical partition (primary and extended) on the new device and create the FS over these partitions,
- you can use the "new" (in SME world ;) ) approach : create volume group and logical volumes then create you FS over this one.
The main advantage of LVM is that you can manage independantly you physical and logical volumes.
It's also a matter of which technology you are familiar with.
Once you have built your new data storage, you just have to join it to your system : look around at "add extra disk to sme".
et voilà ;)
There are many way looking at this case. Mine is to keep it as simple and reliable as possible. Splitting storage area from "system one" sounds good for me.
I would also go for the LVM architecture for the storage, but it's morelikely because I am dealing with this technology very often than because it's a better choice.
I guess Chris, will summarize its results as soon he get something working ;)
Gaston.