I'm about ready to do SW-Raid5 - pointers needed

[berk walker <berk.walker@verizon.net>]

The purpose of my going to raid is to ensure, short of a total 
meltdown/fire, etc, data loss prevention.  If my house and business 
burn, I'm hosed anyway.

I am buying 4 maxtor 40 gb/200mb ultra 133 drives, and another promise 
board, to finally do swraid5 (after reading this list for a few months, 
it seems pretty scary in failure).

is there an advantage to >more< than 1 spare drive? .. more than 3 
drives in mdx?  why not cp old boot/root/whatever drive to mdx after 
booting on floppy?

is there an advantage to having various mdx's allocated to various 
/directories?..ie: /home, var, /etc

looking for meaningful help pls. not flamage.

b-

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