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> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, David Brook wrote: > >> If you are going raid, 2 discs or more is IMHO practically a must - the >> advantage of using mirrored discs (Raid 1) is obvious - thus 2 x 250 >> SATA >> far preferable to 1 x 500 as there is immediately 1 backup in existence >> and >> online for when a disc chews up. > > There's no practially about it, for any raid configuration you need a > minimum of two disks, otherwise it's not raid! > > Alex. How about software raid over 2 partitions on the save physical disk.. ok, you can stop shaking now... seriously, I was joking... -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html