Hi David, * David Rees , Wednesday, November 26, 2003, 10:44:59 PM: > On Wed, November 26, 2003 1at 1:36 am, Timo Boettcher wrote: >> >> I have 3 * 36GB discs and 5 * 18GB discs on two u160 scsi channels? >> What possibilities do I have to build a raid on them? I want to be >> able to survive one failed disc, but get as much space and >> performance out of the discs as possible. > How about two RAID5 arrays, one with the 3*36GB=72GB and the other using > the 5*18GB=72GB. Then throw both of these under a RAID0 which will get > you 144GB and still be able to survive 1 disk failure. that way i'll loose 54gb... but it seems reasonable... i'll try it. Timo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html