On 03/27/2012 02:59 PM, Tom Perrine wrote: > On 3/27/12 1:48 PM, John 'Warthog9' Hawley wrote: >> As much ram as you can reasonably afford and fast, and large, disk. The >> number of cores doesn't really play as much of a roll in a normal mirror >> as those two factors do. > > I was thinking 32G RAM and maybe 600G (2x300G) in RAID0. I figure I need the spindles and read speed more than I need > redundancy; I can always just re-mirror the content. If you have it, throwing a 3rd 300G drive at this and doing raid5 is probably cheap and easy enough. - John