Storage raid - 4 x 3 TB disks

[cab]

I am quite new in the proxmox business - but have played around with it for a week now, and I'm impressed.
I have installed Proxmox on a 256 GB SSD, working fine - but how do I implement my 3 TB disks as storage?

RAID-1 so I have 2 pairs of 3 TB storage?
RAID-5 which gives me 9 TB storage?
RAID-10 perhaps?

and how to implement this i Proxmox:

As directory storage?
As LVM storage?

Any suggestions?

 

[glennbtn]

Hi.

I have just done this on an HP Micro server but using a 250gb drive with proxmox and raid running on 2x1tb hard drives. These are the links I used to complete the setup

http://www.scriptit.ch/?p=63

http://www.howtoforge.com/proxmox-2-with-software-raid

Hope these help.

Glenn

 

[udo]

I am quite new in the proxmox business - but have played around with it for a week now, and I'm impressed.
I have installed Proxmox on a 256 GB SSD, working fine - but how do I implement my 3 TB disks as storage?

RAID-1 so I have 2 pairs of 3 TB storage?
RAID-5 which gives me 9 TB storage?
RAID-10 perhaps?

and how to implement this i Proxmox:

As directory storage?
As LVM storage?

Any suggestions?

Hi,
depends on your usage - raid-5 and raid-1 are not realy fast. If you need speed (and IO-speed is always an good idea for virtualization) go for raid-10.
I prefer to use an small raid-volume as proxmox-system and use the remaining space for all other needed storage (lvm, DRBD, filesystem for backup...).

Udo