Re: OT: RAID Help

["paul_watkin" <paul_watkin@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Paul,

Not an expert on this by any means but would you not be better off 
buying a Raid 5 card and one extra disk which would still give 480Gb 
of storage in a fault tolerant manner, allow for future expansion, 
and cost less.

This seemed to be the consensus of opinion on the group when I asked 
about Raid a while back.

Don't ask me how the hell you rebuild the current array into a raid 5 
one without loosing data though

HTH

Paul

--- In ukha_d@y..., "Paul Smith" <wheelbarrowhandle@n...>
wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> 
>       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.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Paul

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