Wow! How Timely again, This message came in as my other message talking about this same topic went out. Yes, I do have another 2 gig SCSI drive along with the 2 8gig segates for the raid array. The 2 gig could be the OS, programs, whatever. The double 8 gig purely raid server storage.
Please see my other questions and tell me more. One of my biggest concerns last time around was picking the right partition sizes for stuff I knew nothing about. IF you have suggestions for partition sizes, etc don't hold back. If you think that this is off topic feel free to email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I actually think this topic would be good on list, as I am pretty sure Chad and Anthony might want to try something like this. Best, John (likes one big fat C drive with everything on it :) > -----Original Message----- > From: Older PC and DOS Internet Forum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Kenneth Alan Boyd Ramsay > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 12:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SURVPC] Win 95, combining drives > > > On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, JJG wrote: > > > Yes, Raid is an option and I believe I would need a hardware upgrade. > > Not necessarily. Using Linux, you should be able to set up a software > RAID array. It won't be as fast as a hardware array would be, but if > the data is striped (half of each file to each drive), it should be > significantly faster than a regular drive. The only "cost" is your time > to figure out how to set up the Linux server. > > A "dedicated" server could use a relatively small partition for the OS, > but if you are learning, and if you have another small SCSI drive, you > might want to install the OS (with all the documentation and HOWTOs > there, so that you aren't trying to boot from the RAID array while you are > trying to figure things out. You could also boot from an IDE drive, but > sometimes IDE and SCSI "fight", so this might be a little more > complicated. > > If you have the physical space for another drive, this also gives you a > cheap route to upgrade, as big companies are always dumping "small" > hard drives (that are bigger than what you have) as they upgrade. > > Boyd Ramsay > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
