your advice on vinum, RAIDs

[Chuck Swiger]

Joe Auty wrote:
> Some great advice here!
> 
> What RAID level would you recommend for simply maximizing the hard  disk 
> space I have available?

RAID-0 striping.  Note that it gives you no redundancy or protection.

> This is just my personal backup machine  and 
> will consist of two drives, so I don't need kick ass performance,  and I 
> don't need my files mirrored. I take it that striping is what I  need to 
> look at? RAID-0? Can I setup striping without reformatting,  or only 
> mirroring?

If you plan to use RAID most effectively, plan to reformat.
Do not attempt to setup RAID without having backups.

However, you can glue two disks together without reformatting using something 
called "concatenation", but it doesn't perform as well as reformatting using 
striping.

-- 
-Chuck