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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi, this is my first attempt at Gluster storage.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just a quick help me get started question – the bare metal page yields a “not found” on the web site so…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have two dell 2950s fully populated with 5 x 300GB 10K disks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I want to get as much storage out of these as possible.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have two more dell 2950s each with 4 x 146GB 10K disks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Should I build one RAID 5 container on the first two servers, load up CentOS7 and then Gluster on that? using the unused partition of what is left after loading CentOS?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Or should I be looking at moving physical disks around and putting the smaller 146 GB disks as RAID 1 in each of the 4 servers for OS and distributing the 300GB disks amoung all the servers and maybe pick some more up on Ebay to get all
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