[TriLUG] theoretical RAID question

[Warren Myers]

Howdy

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:

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?

2) Or, to partition it in an identical fashion to the next one, then RAID
those together?

WMM