I'd set them up in RAID 1; give the data some redundancy, especially with
that much data.

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Kari Matthews <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a customer who wants a new server.  I convinced him to go with Linux
> instead of Windows.  He then asked at the end that I put 2-1TB drives in the
> server.  I assume the second is for storage b/c they deal with pretty large
> files.
>
> In your opinion, what should I do with the second drive?  Should I put
> Linux on both drives?  I was going to do a data partition on the first drive
> ... if I did that for both, that would be 4 partitions.  What is the best
> way to handle this?
>
> I know this is a rather silly question, but I am unsure how to best utilize
> the space on the 2nd drive.  It's tempting to put it in an external casing
> and just use it as a backup drive.  I don't know.
>
> Opinions welcome, since you're all brilliant.  TIA.
>
> ~kari
>
>
>
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