[TriLUG] theoretical RAID question

[Warren Myers]

That's kinda what I expected - that it's be *possible* but not *good*.

WMM

On 7/19/07, Shawn William Taylor <STaylor at torexretailna.com> wrote:
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> You should be able to mirror the two disks. Don't mirror the two halves of
> the same disk, your performance will be poor.
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> Howdy
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> I've just bought a 500GB SATA drive for my desktop. And, yes, I'm probably
> on crack for coming up with this, but I'm curious:
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> 1) I'm probably going to buy a second in a few days, but I'm wondering if
> you could partition the drive down to, say, 250G, and then RAID the halves
> of it?
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> 2) Or, to partition it in an identical fashion to the next one, then RAID
> those together?
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> WMM
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