Home RAID question

[Kenneth Burgener]

Gabriel Gunderson wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 10:02 -0600, Kenneth Burgener wrote:
>> My first question is, is there a decent RAID 5 card within the $20,
>> $80, and $120 range?
> 
> I actually prefer software raid to cheap hardware cards.  At least you
> know what you are getting into.  I'd expect to pay more then any of
> those for something decent.
> 
> My 2 cents.


I currently have a software RAID 0 setup.  My concern is if I rebuild
the OS, will I have to rebuild the software RAID?  I assume with the
hardware RAID, the OS has no idea what is under it, so rebuilding the OS
will not affect my RAID.

Currently I have 3 drives.  Drive 1 has the OS on it, and drives 2 and 3
are RAID 0.  I would like to add drives 4 and 5 making my RAID a 1TB setup.


Kenneth