Re: OT: RAID Help

[john.benfield@xxxxxxx]

>I know several of you use RAID and I was wondering if you can point me
in
the right direction.
>I currently have an Abit AT7 MD with 4 channel IDE raid built in.
(Supports 8 Ide Drives)
>I have at the moment 4 120gb disks. One on each ide channel.
>These have been configure for Raid 0+1. Such that I have 230gb of
space.
>I have now used this up and require to make it bigger.
>Firstly I guess I can not just add disks to the array and hope that
my
>data is safe.
>
>I plan to add 4 more disks to give me around 460gb of space. However
how
>should I get the  raid laid out.
>
>Do I use all primary disks and then mirror on the secondarys or should
I
>group 2 primaries and 2 secondary and then mirror then on the
others.
>
>Any help on this would be useful.

Paul,

This is really spooky. I've just today emailed Highpoint with almost
the
same question. If I get a reply I'll post it.

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