>> I have two home workstation machines. >> One is Centos, and one is Windows (the one I use Adobe on). I'd prefer if possible >> to have the same type of RAID cards on both machines, because easier to >> manage and if I ever decide to sell or give away one machine, I can pull >> the raid card and use it as a backup. > > I've always considered this a huge advantage of software raid1. Even if > everything on a machine melts except for one drive, you can recover > the data from it and you don't need a special controller to do it. On > windows, you need the server versions to do mirroring, though. > > If you can tolerate losing an hour's work or so, you could just schedule > rsync commands to keep copies updated on another (perhaps external) > drive or to another machine on the network - or get a Mac with it's > 'time machine' backup. This approach is actually safer than RAID alone, > since operator or software errors will wipe out your mirrored copy > instantly as well with RAID. Unfortunately I can't use software RAID1 because of this: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-March/096063.html _________________________________________________________________ Helping your favorite cause is as easy as instant messaging. You IM, we give. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/?source=text_hotmail_join