On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 21:51:42 +0000 (UTC), "O |V| 3 G A"
wrote:

doh - should of been RAID0 (striping) - i was wrongly informed which was
mirroring and which was striping.



When one of the RAID 0 drives fails, the whole array is lost, no
possible way to recover UNLESS you get the same drive working again.

It would seem that you're trying to make a giant step in HDD usage
when what you really should do first is just buy a normal, larger 7K2
drive, and gain some background knowledge & experience using arrays,
BEFORE you need depend on one. RAID 0 arrays are a nice compliment to
already-adequate storage space but not a suitable replacement for it.

Since your system supports SATA you might go ahead and purchase an
SATA drive, but if you buy only one you will have to re-FDISK and
format when you add the second drive (later) to form the RAID 0 array.
Meaning, you need enough storage space on _other_ drives to backup all
that data first, unless you want to reinstall everything again,
including the OS. By making the backup you will not need to reinstall
the OS, just dupe the backup to the new array.


Dave