My Linux HTPC project and other things digital

“I have been configuring SMART monitoring to lot of my servers
and workstations, both work and home, lately. Especially when
combined with RAID, SMART can help you to avoid disasters that
would occur when you lose your data in an event you hard drives
break.

“Short primer

“RAID means “Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks”
and is mostly thought something you would do on hardware level via
a separate RAID-controller or motherboard that supports RAID. RAID
is used to get performance improvement for your disk operations,
which is the biggest bottleneck in modern systems most of the time,
or to provide redundancy when you lose your drive to hardware
failure.

“With Linux you can use something called ‘software RAID’ which
does not require expensive RAID-controller nor support from
motherboard. All you basically need is more than one hard
drive.”

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