on 10/23/2007 3:21 AM Anup Shukla spake the following: > 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 If you have it I think the option is called flexraid on a perc. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!