On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:59:10 -0600 Dave Sherohman <esper at sherohman.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:13:03AM -0600, Shawn Fertch wrote: > > Not familiar enough yet with different RAID controller setups, but > > wouldn't it be highly beneficial if we split up the disk space onto > > different physical disks? > > Any reasonable RAID setup will split the data across multiple disks. > Building a RAID across multiple partitions on a single disk would > be... well... pointless, at best. It would add overhead with no real > benefit. Which is the point I was saying. On the spec, it was shown as 60GB+, or something like that. I was jumping the gun by trying to say "Disks are cheap, let's get a few disks (to add up to that or more) if possible ($$-wise) to spread usage across the devices." One of those "No duh..." statements on my part =) If we do build a new box, let's build it right and something that will still fit it's original layout for a couple of years. Shawn