On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 12:07:29PM -0600, Kenneth Burgener wrote:
> 
> I currently have a software RAID 0 setup.  My concern is if I rebuild
> the OS, will I have to rebuild the software RAID?  I assume with the
> hardware RAID, the OS has no idea what is under it, so rebuilding the OS
> will not affect my RAID.

All of the RAID metadata is on disk.  You can put the disks in another
computer and reassemble the array.

> Currently I have 3 drives.  Drive 1 has the OS on it, and drives 2 and
> 3 are RAID 0.  I would like to add drives 4 and 5 making my RAID a 1TB
> setup.

Currently, you have to destroy the old array and create a new one if you
add disks.

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