hardware question [2]: SATA RAID

[Mark Schouten]

On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:17:26AM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> SO I'm going to put two 300-gig SATA drives in my new system, and I'm trying
> to decide whether or not to use RAID in them.  I guess RAID 0 (striped)
> seems too risky, while RAID 1 (mirror) seems like a tremendous waste of
> space...  what I'd really LOVE to do is to have some (absolutely crucial)
> partitions (/home, /usr, /etc) mirrored and other, less essential partitions
> (/music, /videos) striped.  BUt I also imagine that's impossible.  I
> justwanted to check in and see how other people have managed similar issues.  

You could partition the drives, and create multiple md's. Some mirrored,
and some striped...

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