I did exactly that: coming off a flight from Glasgow to Gatwick, I refused to stop to have my photo taken on the way into the terminal. The guy just shrugged and let me through.
Agree about the Linux RAID making the most sense. That's the conclusion I came to for my home server with 4x250GB Hitachi SATA drives. I bought a Kingston Rhino case to put 'em in (it includes a fan to cool them), and a Promise four-port SATA card to run them off. Fedora 4 runs quite happily configured to use them as a software RAID 5, which gives some redundancy and 750GB -- which is just about enough. Probably not the fastest config but, for the home, above all I wanted a reliable, cheap and non-fiddly kind of setup. Plug and forget.
One mistake: I didn't configure the disk format of/dev/md0 to be an LVM, which would have made the RAID extensible. Instead, I left the RAID as a straightforward, single partition. Don't do what I did!
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I did exactly that: coming off a flight from Glasgow to Gatwick, I refused to stop to have my photo taken on the way into the terminal. The guy just shrugged and let me through.
Everyone should try it.
Agree about the Linux RAID making the most sense. That's the conclusion I came to for my home server with 4x250GB Hitachi SATA drives. I bought a Kingston Rhino case to put 'em in (it includes a fan to cool them), and a Promise four-port SATA card to run them off. Fedora 4 runs quite happily configured to use them as a software RAID 5, which gives some redundancy and 750GB -- which is just about enough. Probably not the fastest config but, for the home, above all I wanted a reliable, cheap and non-fiddly kind of setup. Plug and forget.
/dev/md0 to be an LVM, which would have made the RAID extensible. Instead, I left the RAID as a straightforward, single partition. Don't do what I did!
One mistake: I didn't configure the disk format of
To Americans they are the same thing :)