On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 17:37 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > I am beginning to wonder if raid-1 is what I need. RAID is generally used because of a need, rather than simply because you can do it. Of course, if you're doing this as a learning exercise, that's another matter. Some benefits of RAID, depending on the type, *can* be faster access to data spread over more than one drive (though your current system might be more than fast enough, making this pointless), or having a spare drive that *can* let you keep on working when one drive has failed (mirroring - useful for servers, probably less important for stand alone client machines in the home), or increased storage space by using an array of drives as if they were one big one (which can also be done using LVM). -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
