as soon as you goto software raid 5 you'll get a good performance hit. Head for the hardware raid cards then. You can get the 3ware ide cards for 150 or less now. Dave wrote: > Hello, > My thanks to everyone for many helpful replies on this topic. Right > now this box will be ide raid1 mirroring, i've got two drives in it, > although at some point probably within the next six months or so i'm > going to expand with another drive. > I do not have experience with hardware raid cards, although i've > heard plenty of good things about them, financially they're just not in > my budget and i've implemented software raid1 on other Unix systems > before, and that has saved me much hard times, in fact one box is > currently running off the slave drive, the master drive died and it's > waiting for me to replace it, so i quite like software raid and wanted > to implement it on this new CentOS box. > Thanks again. > Dave. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- My "Foundation" verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. -- carpe ductum -- "Grab the tape" CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician) Linux user #322099 Machines: 206822 256638 276825 http://counter.li.org/