On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 06:24:52AM -0800, tofu.oni@gmail.com wrote: > I'm looking for general advice/tips/admonitions of doom. I'm getting > ready to build a file server and I want to have some data redundancy. > I've ordered four 350G SATA drives and I plan to put them into some > kind of RAID 5 configuration. The boot disk will be a separate IDE > drive. > > The motherboard I'm using is an intel d945gnt. It has an intel Martix > driver that will let me do RAID 5 in the bios. Then, linux should see > one big whopping device. That sounds like the easiest solution to me. orthagonal to your question, but you should read: http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/ under all the hyperbole there is good information. A
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