I've been running FreeBSD for a while now, and finally want to venture into using RAID with FreeBSD. I want to add a RAID 5 array to my FreeBSD server, and can't exactly afford a hardware controller at the moment. After a bit of Google'ing I've found info on geom raid5, and it seems to be used in FreeNAS so I'm guessing it has a decent rep.
Anyone have any personal experience with geom raid5? My array is going to be comprised of three 250 GB WD SATA II drives that I have laying around, the box is a AMD x2 3800+ with 4 GB RAM, mainly used as my development box, git/svn/cvs, ftp, file server, among other things. Data integrity is a concern as this will hold a lot of my work and backups.
Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Anyone have any personal experience with geom raid5? My array is going to be comprised of three 250 GB WD SATA II drives that I have laying around, the box is a AMD x2 3800+ with 4 GB RAM, mainly used as my development box, git/svn/cvs, ftp, file server, among other things. Data integrity is a concern as this will hold a lot of my work and backups.
Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks in advance.