If you're running a motherboard that supports it, I'd go for RAID through the BIOS. The nVidia nForce 4 chipsets have a nice RAID feature, that will even extend across the SATA, SATA II, and IDE channels.
WMM On 7/22/05, Dean Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am preparing to build a Linux SMB file server > > the OS will go on the IDE drive > two 250GB SATA drives will be used for the data > > The shop this box is going into will be closed (no work) over night. > > My question is this > > Would it be best ( more effiecient ) to create a linux raid mirror with > the two drives. > > or > > set the drives up static (sda1 and sdb1) and create a cron job the will > dd sda to sdb. > > Thoughts and comments please. > > -- > Thank You, > Dean Price > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- http://warrenmyers.com "God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers." --Paul Erdős
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