On 29 August 2007, "Ross S. W. Walker" rwalker@medallion.com wrote:
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I wouldn't worry too much about the OS HD configuration, you are always going to want RAID1 for the OS, whether software or hardware.
Reason I say not to worry too much about the OS HD config is because you are almost certainly going to put the application or user data on a separate array, so the OS HD is basically used for loading binaries.
Ross: Thank you! I also read your reply to Israel in Cuba, which may be applicable for me.
About 10 seconds after I started this thread, I remembered a long discussion about RAID, SATA, etc., 2 or 3 months ago. I think that Feizhou (?) strongly recommended going with Software RAID in CentOS. I will search for that and do a lot of reading. RAID 1 for mirroring is what I want. Lanny