your advice on vinum, RAIDs

[Joe Auty]

Hello,

I've been considering buying another hard drive for my FreeBSD  
machine, and building a RAID with my current hard drive so that both  
drives are treated as one.

Do any of you have experience in this area? Is this advisable? I'm  
assuming I'd be looking at creating a RAID-5? Can this be done  
without reformatting my current drive? Does this setup work well? Do  
you have any general advice for me? I need to know if there is risk  
involved here.



Thanks in advance!









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Joe Auty
NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians
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