Re: nested raid possible?

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a raid-5 array of six 250gb hard drives. I just bought four 500gb hard drives. I know I can take the six drives and make three raid-1 arrays of 500gb. After doing that, can I make a raid-5 array consisting of the three raid-0 arrays, and the four 500gb hard drive

Re: nested raid possible?

2007-07-06 Thread David Greaves
Simon Valiquette wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] un jour écrivit: I have a raid-5 array of six 250gb hard drives. I just bought four 500gb hard drives. Simon raised some sensible points. Also consider a raid5 of the 4x500 drives and using LVM to join them to a raid 5 of the 6x250s The benefit usi

Re: nested raid possible?

2007-07-05 Thread Simon Valiquette
[EMAIL PROTECTED] un jour écrivit: I have a raid-5 array of six 250gb hard drives. I just bought four 500gb hard drives. I know I can take the six drives and make three raid-1 arrays of 500gb. Here, you probably means three RAID-0 arrays of 500GB, otherwise you would get three RAID-1 of 250