On 12/5/05, Sam Drinkard <sam at wa4phy.net> wrote: > Is it possible to set up a single disk raid (kind of redundant to call a > single disk an array) but I've got a single SATA drive in the machine not > doing anything. It's a 10k maxtor 74G drive, and what I really want is just > to backup two home partitions. I can always reinstall the OS, but the data > can't be recovered that easily. The mobo supports raid-0,1 and jbod. > Suggestions? Really for RAID, you want identical disks. Better solution would be to just archive important data to the drive on a semi-regular basis. as for raid on just one disk, it's not a belt&suspenders type scenario, it's a "wearing two belts" scenario. There's no real point, because if the drive fails, you're screwed just the same. -- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center