On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 08:43:03AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > ... raid 1 allows you to repair the kind of damage you have without > too much difficult, but at the cost of half of your disk space, which > may be too high for you. Ah...a single 500Gb drive is about $100 or so street price these days. RAID0 over RAID1 is almost never justifiable, except maybe in a RAID10 config. People time (recovery, reconfig) and data value massively trump disk storage space today. Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat President, DMINET Consulting, Inc. dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx