"Justin Kremer" <thekremer at yahoo.com> writes: > ...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. Because I can buy 20 gig 7200 rpm IDE drives for $129 in town. And because the RAID I built (I'm not the original poster in this thread) is a RAID-1 mirror to make me feel better about having poor backup habits. The IDE interface is plenty fast enough -- the stuff on this filesystem is mostly web content being served out over a 768k DSL link. -- David Dyer-Bennet / Welcome to the future! / dd-b at dd-b.net SF: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ Minicon: http://www.mnstf.org/minicon/ Photos: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/