> why on earth would you want to build a RAID out of 2 IDE drives? It's cheap. You can buy 2 80GB Maxtor IDE drives for $257 each, do software raid or buy an Abit IDE RAID card for $50. A 73GB Seagate SCSI drive is around $950, plus you you need to buy a scsi card. $500 vs $2000, I think I'll stick with the IDE for home use. Of course, I'm only storing an audio/video archive, so it doesn't need to be fast. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Justin Kremer [mailto:thekremer at yahoo.com] > Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 2:00 AM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Software raid. > > > I think you may have some problems booting off of a soft > RAID...but what do > I know...I only deal with the hardware ones. > > ...but my question to you: > why on earth would you want to build a RAID out of 2 IDE drives? > If you're going to build a RAID, I would suggest using SCSI > instead (and > more than 2 drives...hell, the more the merrier...you can get > decent deals > on 9 gig SCSI nowadays and a hardware RAID controller helps > too...these > things are so difficult aren't they?). It will be more expensive, but > you'll be much more satisfied in the end. > If I was building a RAID (for personal use) I would rather a > few measly old > Ultra Narrow or Wide drives than two ATA/66 drives (or even ATA/100) > Not that I'm not drooling over FibreChannel... > Anyway, I'm not here to spend your money, just figured I'd > make a suggestion > regarding something that I have a tiny speck of knowledge on. > > - Kremer > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chuck Larson" <wyatt at coolsend.com> > To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 8:40 PM > Subject: [TCLUG] Software raid. > > > > I been pondering creating a software raid with two maxtor > 30GB ATA/66 HDDs > I have. My question is, Can it be possible to boot off the > RAID? Or, does > it need to be a hardware RAID to do that? > > > > _____________________________________________________________ > > Domain powered by www.iReg.com > > E-mail powered by www.1FreeEmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > > tclug-list mailing list > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >