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Right now I store TONS of stuff on a 28GB Hard
drive, an 8GB drive for /home, and a 2.5 GB for everything else. I
also have an IDE CD-ROM drive and a SCSI tape drive for backups.
Here is what I want to do:
Add the two 8GB drives (so that all three [same
model] 8GB hard drives are on one IDE controller) and create a software
RAID. The idea is to use this for everything but the data on the 28GB
drive. This would give me a form of redundancy for the rest of the system
without having to necessarily back it up to tape. At this point I would
remove the 2.5 GB drive, but keep the 28 GB for data storage (this I would back
up using the tape drive.)
Naturally if possible I would like to keep the IDE
CD-ROM drive and add an IDE CD-R. And don't forget the tape
drive.
So my questions are these:
Does anyone have experience using two IDE devices
in a Linux computer (and especially a RedHat 7.1) computer? Are there any
special problems that you run into trying to do this?
What kind of power supply am I going to need for 7
devices (300 watt? 400 watt?)
Regarding the CD-R this system is a P90-166 MHz
(not even sure) with 48 MB RAM. It runs great for what it does (sit there
and act as a server with no GUI running) but I'm worried that this thing is
going to burn more coasters than CD's... anyone have a guess?
Thanks,
Jason
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