Hi, all -- I have a 1T data drive (currently in use with data) that I'd like to mirror with a pair of 500G drives striped together. I'll be mirroring two partitions, and I'll be striping partitions to ensure the correct size, and my understanding is that I'll have to create the mirror on the two new drives with half missing, mount it up, copy over the data, dump the original disk, and add it as the other half of the mirror to sync. If I've missed anything there, please let me know, but all of that matches my Googling and I don't think I have any questions. What I do wonder, and what I don't see in any searches since apparently nobody talks about striping up half of a mirror, is if I should do anything special with my two-disk RAID0 stripe. I was gobsmacked at the simplicity of RAID10 on only two drives by splitting each in half and "flipping" one to maximize head movement performance. Awesome! :-) Are there any brilliant hacks for simple striping? If I'm just putting together two [not terribly large] disks, will I benefit from any other funny stuff, or should I just stripe together two partitions -- each half the size of my other drive, of course -- to make a "boring basic" stripe and run with that? TIA & HANW :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt
