bearskin Posted April 16, 2006 Report Share Posted April 16, 2006 (edited) guru help....lots of questions about redundant array of independant drives...I want to setup a server with 5 hot swapable hard drives-160 gig.1. with limited budgett what is the cheapest equipment?2. will this work with winme and will I need special software?3. if I have to replace a bad drive how do I copy all the stuff to the new drive?4. will I need to install windows on each workstaion manually?5. will I really need a hard drive on the workstations?6. will I hook the workstations up thru a router or just use usb?I got lots more questions which I will ask later.thanks for any responses and helpful ideas and I would appreciate any web sites for reference.this gonna be a lot of work for a dumb injun.oh, one more thing...my shop is about 100 feet from the house...can I run a wire that far? Edited April 16, 2006 by bearskin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted April 16, 2006 Report Share Posted April 16, 2006 just curious, what do you plan to use the server for? Even if it is just to play, you need some sort of task for it to do. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bearskin Posted April 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2006 there are several reasons. we have 2 computers in the house and 2 computers in my shop. I have a lot of files that other people need access to and I want to control levels of access for people as we have a lot of kinfolk coming over that has a tendency to go places they shouldn't go. I am mainly responsible for the operation of the computers and I need someway to do the scans from my shop where I spend much of my time. I also need them to be able to make changes to certain files. only one computer will have access to the internet. less trouble for me if I can just go to the main computer and do the setups or changes. I kinda figured that would be easier than having to go to each individual computer and do a reinstall. I've had to do that several times already. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hai-Etlik Posted April 16, 2006 Report Share Posted April 16, 2006 There are a LOT of options and variables involved in this sort of thing. You could range from terminals (aka. thin clients), to workstations using something like DHCP, ZeroConf, and maybe a file server to retrieve their configuration information and store data. Depending on your needs you may be best off with a mix of the two. It realy depends on what you plan to do with these machines.Even after all that, there are different protocols and implementations for all this stuff. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bearskin Posted April 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2006 well I didn't understand a word you said so I guess I'll forget about the raid thingy...thanks for the responses. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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