> You don't save the cost of a drive by using software RAID. RAID5 will > cost you one drive's worth of capacity per array no matter if it's s/w > or h/w based. I phrased my remarks very poorly. I meant that for the price of a decent RAID card, approx. $500, I could buy an additional 750 GB drive, which are now $499 at Newegg.
I understand that growing a RAID can be tricky. I'm going to mirror the system drives. Actually, I may not do any traditional RAID on the data drives at all. I might try a product discussed over at avsforum.com, called UnRAID. I really don't like that name because, since it does possess redundancy, it is, in fact, a RAID. It has a dedicated parity drive (instead of the parity block rotating among disks, as in RAID5). It has ome characteristics of RAID4. DG -- dgpretzel ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dgpretzel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2714 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23716 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
