On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 12:14, James Pifer wrote: > So, on to my question. It's a real hassle to go through this when > ATA/EIDE drives fail, and it seems like they fail a lot nowadays. I have > quite a few of these drives so I'm not looking to purchase anything > else, like SATA. So I'm wondering should I try doing some type of RAID5 > with these drives? If you have power problems or the motherboard fries it can take all the attached drives at once. You might be better off getting some firewire/usb2 enclosures for your extra drives and just periodically mount them and rsync the parts you want to back up. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx