Right now my main machine, a dual 1.25 G4 is running off of a striped dual 80 GB IDE RAID. I'm used to it know but it seemed extra fast when I got the machine. But it was also an upgrade from a dual 533, with faster processors, faster ram, faster bus, faster and bigger cache. So I don't know how much of the speed really was the HD's. But overall tis a very fast setup, and the RAID has worked very well from 10.2 and now on 10.3. I used the factory 80 GB and bought an additional 80 GB when I ordered the machine, so the first thing I did when I got it was reformat the nice fresh install it had from the factory.
Now for my actual question...
I wanna upgrade my server to SCSI. not high end SCSI, cheaper used SCSI. Its running a single 6 GB IDE iMac Hard drive now :-P. So a SCSI drive will be a big improvement I'm thinking, especially during heavy database work, which right now is my biggest bottleneck. But because I'm doing used stuff, I was going to do two identical SCSI drives mirrored using the built in software raid (either 9 GB or 18 GB Drives). Having experience, I know how to set it up, but I'm wondering how you actually recover your volume, should one of the drives really die? Has anyone ever has such an experience? I'd hate to go through the trouble to find out that you can set up a mirrored RAID but there's way to rebuild your RAID if one drive dies, using the built in software RAID.
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