For controller, what is the interface on your drives?? SCSI, SAS?? John Plemons dnk wrote: > Hi there, > > I am currently setting up a server that will house my backups (simply > using rsync). > > This system has 4 X 500 gb drives and I am looking to raid for max > drive space and data safety. Performance is not so much a concern. > > My experience with software raids in nil, so some of these may seem > like pretty dumb questions. > > I was thinking a raid 1 is probably sufficient. > > Would it be best to raid 1 two drives each and LVM them together? > > My next question would be about how to do this as I have never done a > linux software raid. > > D > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > >