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i tried a bunch of cheap cards and adapters and other things and nothing works well. go with the two drives for now and if you end up needing more room, save your pennies for a 3ware controller. once you get a good controller, you can monkey with the drives (one at a time) as needed and as...

thanks rodsfree, i'll shop for the 'troller and get started. linux does software raid, here is a link to a basic intro to it, tho it covers booting from the raid array, which i am not into. my kung fu is weak when it comes to RAID, so it all looks like dark wizardry to me...

right. when you back something up you have to store the backup file(s) somewhere other than the system you are backing up... like a tape or CD, or in this case, a file server.

i figured this was the place to go for questions like this since most linux boards are short of hardware freaks :-) my experience with linux is that it runs great on old hardware, but not cheap stuff. that usually means production quality server parts, of which i have none. my first...