I was thinking of getting another disk and starting to use software RAID (levels 1 and 5). I have 2 IDE disks on my 2 IDE buses, but my motherboard also has 2 empty SATA connectors. I know putting more than 1 RAID drive on a single IDE bus is not recommended, so I was thinking of getting a SATA drive and using that for the RAID array. I can't find any discussion on whether this is possible or not recommended or what. So, here are my questions:
1. Can raid devices be of different types (i.e. /dev/hda1, /dev/hdb1, and /dev/sda1)? 2. Has anyone done this? 3. How would this affect performance? 4. Would it be better or worse than putting 2 IDE devices on one IDE bus (master/slave like)? Thanks, Cameron
