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Not a silly thought. I've instead of spending x hunderd thousand on brandname ibm servers and sans, how you could create a RAID array of PCs running IDE hard drives. If a PC dies just plug in some more and rebuild. If you want to add more space just add more PCs. :) that would be cool. Obviously you wouldn't use it still for critical data like databases etc, but...

All: Thanks to everyone who participated in the rather long thread recently about RAID arrays and CentOS. I have been needing to research RAID for CentOS for some time, so the discussion was timely for me. Based on the discussion in that thread, I bought a 3ware 9650SE card and a bunch of WD drives. I was told by 3ware that 9650SE driver will likely not be in the CentOS 5 kernel

The "2005 Readers' Choice Awards" voting is in progress at Linux Journal, and CentOS is Nominated in the "distribution:" category. So ... all you guys and gals who think CentOS is the best thing ever, get over to: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8266 and vote for CentOS :) ------------------------------- Also, since write ins are allowed on the e-mailed ballot, if