I’m starting a new category called “Personal” on this blog. I find it pretty boring just talking about tech related / howto stuff all the time. Seeing as how it’ JonHoweOnline.com and not JonHowesTechOnlyBlog.com I’m going to act accordingly.
Anyways, I’ve been up to some pretty cool stuff lately. Yesterday I found a small (20GB) hard drive next to my monitor… I’m not quite sure how or when it got there, but I realized instantly that I needed to put it to use. a friend of mine was over the other day and asked me if I had a raid array in my computer, and at the time I didn’t. That all changed tonight…
I installed that bad boy into my computer and now I have a raid 0 (striping) array in my computer.
It was fairly easy to do, except for a fairly undocumented error having to do with not being able to have the “/boot” partition inside a raid array. Once I figured that out it was smooth sailing. If anyone knows a good hard drive benchmarking tool I’d be interested in giving it a shot.
Well, this whole not-just-tech blog thing didn’t work so well this first time… Oh well, I’ll give it another shot some time when it’s not so late.
Jon Howe
oo. sounds like fun times :D.
(do you gotta have a 3rd drive around to keep /boot off the raid then?)
Nope, as far as I can tell you just put the /boot partition aside from the rest of the array.