Re: [Hampshire] DIY RAID - quick answer required

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Author: Vic
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] DIY RAID - quick answer required

> Is it possible to setup RAID (RAID 1 I think is what I'm after i.e. same
> data gets sent to 2 separate drives simultaneously) across two drives
> where one is internal PATA IDE (and indeed this wil be the drive the
> system boots from) and one is external USB?


Possible - yes. Advisable? Probably not.

If you're just worrying about what drives you currently have, why not set
up a degraded RAID-1 until you can get the disk you want?

Vic.