On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:00:11 -0400, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: > > > I'm in the planning stages of setting up a file server and am > > considering using RAID. > > > > My concern is that my drive sizes are mixed. I have two 500GB SATA > > drives, a 320GB IDE and a 250GB IDE. > > > > I would like to set these up so that the maximum amount of disk space is > > usable, but still be able to recover from any one drive failing. I would > > also like to be able to add drives of any size as easily as possible. > > Create one 500GB RAID1 array with the SATA drives, then create a 250GB > array using the IDE drives. Only 80GB lost, which you could partition out > and use separately if you really need to. > > You want something you can easily recover from in the event of a disk > failure, so keep it simple. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Loose bits sink chips. This is a _much_ larger loss. With RAID5 I can use 2/3 of my storage space. RAID1 I can only use half.
