From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 29 06:09:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 252A016A41F for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 06:09:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joe@netmusician.org) Received: from netmusician.org (netmusician.org [209.67.223.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1E4743D5C for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 06:09:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joe@netmusician.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by netmusician.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCBF573101 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 01:17:21 -0500 (EST) Received: from netmusician.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (netmusician.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 50280-01 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 01:17:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (12-223-193-72.client.insightbb.com [12.223.193.72]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by netmusician.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1584B730BD for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 01:17:18 -0500 (EST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: FreeBSD Questions From: Joe Auty Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 01:09:15 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at netmusician.org Subject: your advice on vinum, RAIDs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 06:09:13 -0000 Hello, I've been considering buying another hard drive for my FreeBSD machine, and building a RAID with my current hard drive so that both drives are treated as one. Do any of you have experience in this area? Is this advisable? I'm assuming I'd be looking at creating a RAID-5? Can this be done without reformatting my current drive? Does this setup work well? Do you have any general advice for me? I need to know if there is risk involved here. Thanks in advance! ----------- Joe Auty NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians http://www.netmusician.org joe@netmusician.org