On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 08:22:40AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: > I need more fast-HD space for computational work. I wonder whether by adding a > second SATA raid1 (a couple of new disks) to the existing SATA raid1, my home > could be spread on the two raid1 systems, as if it were a single disk (or > filesystem, if you want). what exactly is your question here? yes you can add more disks to your array. but that won't make it faster. unless you're striping in a non-redundant array (raid0?). maybe you'r elooking for something like raid10? where you have striped raid1 devices? yes you can treat it all as one filesystem. > > At the moment, on the Tyan S2895 Thunder K8WE, with OS Debian amd64 etch, there > is a raid1 arrangement made with two WD Raptor 150GB each. That affords 100GB > free space for collecting data. If I had to rely solely on the 150BG of a > second, new, raid1, space would be insufficient. I need to have 100 + 150GB. > > Raptor HDs exist at 150GB max size. On the other hand, 300GB Maxtor initially > installed proved to be incompatible with the board components, resulting, from > time to time, in memory corruption. Disks were reconstructed by the raid1, > though the job was lost. In those instances jobs were already running since ca > one month. i like seagate drives. There are several out that come with a 5 year. I've got four 160GB disks in my raid5 array and its working very well. A
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