Morten Torstensen wrote: > Anup Shukla wrote: >> So finally, i am putting a 300G SATA to act as the "system" drive. >> Then use the other 750G's to be the big RAID 5 Volume (XFS) > > If you use a hardware RAID adapter, you can make two LUNs from the > disks. So make one big RAID5 array but two logical drives. I would still > use LVM anyway for management down the road. > > Not all hardware RAID adapters might support this, but if yours does you > will get data protection for "free" on your system drive. > > //Morten > Thats making me feel miserable .. ;) I had this thought, and then a message on the list said the same and now one more message saying the same. I am literally scavenging through Dell PERC guides to find out if and how this can be done. Hope this is possible with Dell PERC. Regards, A.S