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I seem to remember Profound Effects can do something like this (place objects alond a path)
Might be worth looking into.

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I seem to remember Profound Effects can do something like this (place objects alond a path)
Might be worth looking into.

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And on this issue of reliability, is it at all possible to Stripe AND Mirror?
For ex: you have 10 drives, one 5 drive stripe, and another mirrored 5 drive stripe. So if a drive goes down, nothing is lost.

If you can do this (again, forgive me for being a novice here) what RAID software would be able to handle this? Perhaps be able to monitor individual drives as well.

As for the “buy it” of “do it yourself” argument, I am a do-it-yourselfer at heart. When I feel I can do as good or better job at much less cost and I enjoy/have the time to do it, I go for it. I guess I am still figuring this one out.

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[davemcc] “upgrade to a “better” hardware-based RAID PCI (or PCIe) card,”

what is this hardware based RAID PCI card option you speak of?

(and thanks to all for the debate, it has been infomative.)

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“however, the weak link is all the internal SATA cables you’ll need”

yes, that is a concern. And since I would like to setup a rack mount unit, the cables would have to be long.

How long can you run SATA cables? Anyone know if there are issues with longer SATA cables?