Matt wrote:
why not just put it in the machine and make it a raid1 mirror
then, if the first one dies, you just use the second one :D
How do you do that?
Detailed step by step instructions easily modified for CentOS:
http://www.howtoforge.com/software-raid1-grub-boot-debian-etch
I haven't tried this myself ... yet but plan on it in the next few weeks.