On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 04:44:02PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > But for _most_ people at home, I think RAID 1 (mirroring) is the way to go. > For most people at home, RAID is not an option, because it takes more > than one disk to do RAID (in a meaningful way :-) :-) That's why I suggest RAID 1, not RAID 5. > RAID 1 trades a lot of space for some speed and peace of mind. I ... > I guess nowadays, with relatively inexpensive 200+ GB disks, this is > no longer so much of an issue... Exactly. I have my home system set up with two 160GB drives, and I mirror half of each one. The second half of each drive is used for scratch space -- data I can relatively easily replace. (ogg rips from my CD collection, for example). -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
