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I assume you are thinking of RAID 1 for the redundancy since you are<br>
likely to lose the entire IDE channel and possibly the chipset if you<br>
have a drive failure. <br>
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Consider what your recovery plan is with a software raid. If you lose<br>
your primary drive, you won't be able to boot from the array. So now you<br>
are on some other boot media and needing to repair the array. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Actually, with Linux software RAID-1
you can make sure that the boot information is contained on both drives.
You *are* able to boot off of the RAID-1 array should (or rather, when)
a drive failure happen(s).</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">See: http://willert.dk/geek/raid.html</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">With this setup, you just need to monitor
for the drive failure. Pretty darn cool IMO.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">Regards,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">-Ron</font>