Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 21:42:01 -0700, > Dave Stevens <geek@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I'm thinking about a software RAID (0) setup for my next system revision >> and am curious where this occurs in (I assume) the system setup. Can >> anyone point me to documentation on this? > > You can do a custom disk layout during install. It isn't too hard to > figure out do a raid 0 install, though choosing good values for chunking > might take some guesswork. > > What are you going to be doing that makes you think raid 0 is desirable? > For modern home machines with lots of memory, this probably isn't going to > give you much of a speed up in typical use. It will make the chances of > your file system being lost because of a hardware problem, about double. > Raid 1 or 10 seem to be more useful for home users, than raid 0. > No! If the prob of failure during an interval T is pf, the prob of failure for an array of 2 drives during T is 1 - (1-pf)^2.
