I have a small PC that I'd like to use essentially as a NAS. It has three 2TB drives.
I don't know if this is even possible, but I'd like to use software RAID to somewhat secure the data stored on it. More specifically I'd like to use RAID 5 since that gives me reasonable protection while retaining 2/3's of the available space.
In the installer I've gotten to a point where I have 3 drives without any partitions on it. If I try to simply create a RAID 5 with all three drives, it refuses since that would not leave any drives for a boot partition. If I instead create a boot partition on one of the drives, the drive used is not listed when I try to create a RAID 5 partition afterwards.
Is there some way to create a RAID 1 partition for /boot, and using the remaining space for a RAID 5 partition? What are some options or alternatives?
Thanks!