On 27 Aug 2008, at 20:00, Benoit St-Pierre wrote:
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I have two 500GB SATA drives, a 320GB IDE and a 250GB IDE.
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I would like to set these up so that the maximum amount of disk
space is usable, but still be able to recover from any one drive
failing. I would also like to be able to add drives of any size as
easily as possible.
Cheap, fast & purty - pick any two.
What you're suggesting is at best a headache & more likely a complete
nightmare, just waiting to happen.
I can see that you have over 500GB of EIDE, so in the ideal world you
"should" be able to use that as the parity for your 2 x 500GB of SATA
drives.
But in the real world, spend £35.25 and get a 3rd 500GB SATA.
Use the EIDE for swap or non-redundant files or something.
Hard-drives from the "scrap" pile can be immensely useful, but if you
want ease of setup, reliability, redundancy and peace-of-mind then
scratch "cheap" off your list of requirements. Drives are cheap these
days, particularly 500GB ones right now.
Stroller.
