Hi,
I currently have four IDE hard drives installed on my PC. Now, I'm in the need of a fifth IDE-drive, a DVD burner.
My idea of solving this is to RAID my harddrives, using the easiest method, which I've heard is to add all the drives to one big volume and whenever one disk gets full it starts writing to the next one (RAID 0 with striping?). This way, I get plenty of free IDE-slots over for a DVD-burner and maybe more stuff.
Now, an issue here is that all drives contain plenty of data, which I would rather not sacrifice. On the 40gb drive, I've got my OpenBSD running and on the other drives i have about 400GB spread out on 600GB total.
I'm not very familiar with how adding drives to a RAID set works. Do I have to format all of my drives? Is there some way I can go about this without loosing any data and keep my current OpenBSD installation intact?
Also, if anyone knows any way except RAID to solve this, you're more than welcome to tell me.
Any help or ideas appreciated,
Kim
I currently have four IDE hard drives installed on my PC. Now, I'm in the need of a fifth IDE-drive, a DVD burner.
My idea of solving this is to RAID my harddrives, using the easiest method, which I've heard is to add all the drives to one big volume and whenever one disk gets full it starts writing to the next one (RAID 0 with striping?). This way, I get plenty of free IDE-slots over for a DVD-burner and maybe more stuff.
Now, an issue here is that all drives contain plenty of data, which I would rather not sacrifice. On the 40gb drive, I've got my OpenBSD running and on the other drives i have about 400GB spread out on 600GB total.
I'm not very familiar with how adding drives to a RAID set works. Do I have to format all of my drives? Is there some way I can go about this without loosing any data and keep my current OpenBSD installation intact?
Also, if anyone knows any way except RAID to solve this, you're more than welcome to tell me.
Any help or ideas appreciated,
Kim