[jbhopper]

I'm going to do a clean wipe and I'm considering doing a Software RAID setup with a 20GB drive and a 30 GB drive - is this risky with a "new" OS? Anyone done this in the Developer versions? Running smooth? And is Journaling something that will work with the RAID setup? I assume it would, but just making sure. Thanks.

[CatOne]

Originally posted by jbhopper:
I'm going to do a clean wipe and I'm considering doing a Software RAID setup with a 20GB drive and a 30 GB drive - is this risky with a "new" OS? Anyone done this in the Developer versions? Running smooth? And is Journaling something that will work with the RAID setup? I assume it would, but just making sure. Thanks.

When you say software RAID do you mean RAID 0 (stripe) or RAID 1 (mirror).

At any rate, RAID with a 20 and a 30 gig drive is a bit wasteful -- if you do RAID 0 (stripe) you'll get a 40 GB drive (2x20 -- the extra 10 on the 30 is wasted), and if you do RAId 1 (mirror) you'll have 20 GB total capacity.

Those drives are bound to be pretty slow anyway -- if you want speed, I'd recommend you pick up an 80+ GB drive with 8 MB cache... it'll be faster than a 20 and 30 in RAID 0 anyway.

Journaling will work with RAID, fwiw.

[larkost]

If you are thinking of doing RAID with two internal IDE disks on the same chain, I would strongly recommend that you not do it. It will be slower than you think it will be. If you are doing concurrent writes (what RAID does) on both a master and a slave device IDE take a big speed hit. This is probably not a good idea for most people.