Thanks for the replies guys. After further reading and discussions today, I will use software RAID. With the performance difference being negligible for my use and the portability of the software approach, kind of an easy decision if I don't mind a little more configuration... Funny thing is, I trekked it across town to Microcenter today and bought drives and a card, and the immediate problem is the card is not recognized :-(. Of all things to have problems with... Even funnier part is I paid more for a card that was recommended to have better support. ugh. Probably need to make another trip. Of course, also have a little problem with mounting 2 of the drives - not as handy a case as I hoped. May need to find an (external?) enclosure of some sorts. (recs anyone?!) Matt - yep, have backups; thanks for making sure. For this new setup, I plan to copy the data to a system I just setup for that (another old box not good for anything but Linux!). For my prior system, I was just rsyncing. Do you have a rec for a program that has a better managed approach? On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:11:17 -0500 Matt Hallacy <poptix at poptix.net> wrote: > We use a combination of Adaptec, LSI, and 3ware at work, >all three work > great, 3ware has the least expensive of the three and >also has the best > interface for managing the controller. > > We also use software RAID though, which works just as >well (better than > hardware RAID in some configurations, such as SSD). If >you're looking to > provide uptime or simply a larger partition go with >software RAID, if > you're looking to protect your data, use backups. > > On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 23:36 -0600, Jeff Jensen wrote: > [snip] > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >