[TriLUG] IDE RAID vs. md

[Ken Mink]

Hello All,
  I recently purchased a pair of 120gb drives to use as a mirrored pair
in my server at home. As I've taken more and more digital photographs,
the fear of what my wife would do to me if the drive they're stored on
crashed got me thinking about protecting the data. The machine is
older(aren't all of our home servers?) and doesn't have a motherboard
with a RAID controller. I have used md in the past and don't have a
problem with using it here. The machine does not see heavy use, there's
only the two of us. So my question is, should I purchase a IDE RAID
controller and if so, which one, or is md okay? Oh yeah, these would be
the only drives in the machine and it's running rh7.3.

TIA,
Ken
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."--Benjamin Franklin
" 'Necessity' is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it
is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."--William Pitt 


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