after seeing a few threads re. RAID arrays, problems booting off them, and extra strain the surviving member of an array is put under when it has to sync a new HDD after it's (only) brother's failure, i doubt the wisdom of my original idea to set up two identical 2TB drives as RAID1 array. wouldn't it be safer (not to mention simpler) to just rsync the simple directory tree i'm concerned about to the other HDD every 15 min or so? if either of the two HDDs fails, the other one still has the important data. it's not my desktop, but a file server i'm putting together for my employer. the only thing he cares about is preserving the data in question. if or when one of the HDDs fails, there's no need to preserve the operating system or anything else. -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org