Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3470 mails)

[H du Plooy <linuser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

For those who have lots of experience with this:

I need more hard drive space and a faster disc too. Assuming software
based raid is reliable enough for a home user, and money is very tight,
I have two options:

1.  Buy a new fast disc

2.  Use kernel software raid to mirror the current Western Digital
Caviar 5400rpm 2mb cache 10gb drive with a 10gb partition on a new (but
now very cheap) 5400rpm 40gb drive.  The remaining 30gb on the new disc
would be /home

Which setup would be faster?

Thanks
Hans