On 06/07/2010 16:16, Kent West wrote:
I am a RAID newb. I have a brand-new Dell Precision T1500 workstation with two 700GB SATA drives, pre-loaded with Windows 7. Of course, Win7 has already been wiped off. My goal is to have a redundant Debian (Stable) system, such that the second drive is a mirror of the first drive. I would think RAID1 would be the route to go. However, being a RAID newbie, I'm running into all sorts of problems, not least of which that I simply don't understand some of the basic concepts.
Boasting that you "of course wiped W7 off" to then run in to problems with RAID and then come here, is amusing. Maybe you should do some research on RAID and how to do it in Debian, there are many helpful guides on settings up systems, however these are only guides and you also need to know how to recover from disk failures, raid controller failures and other such fun things. W7 has some very easy to use software raid tools which would have at least given you a helping start, I'm not saying they are the best, but they certainly are easy to get your head around.
Checkout some guides, check the archives and look up basic terminology, my fear is you will get a RAID1 set up for your data, to then spend countless hours trying to get your data back when something goes wrong, because you don't know how to do it, something which can be all too commmon