Booting order / SATA onboard / IDE card

Fri May 14 18:05:20 UTC 2010

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 01:28:06PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Why would anyone not raid everything?  Do you like wasting half a day
> reinstalling the OS when the drive fails?  Sure you didn't loose your
> data because it was on raid, but you lost access to your data, which is
> almost as bad.
> 
> People who think swap and the OS don't need to be on raid when the data
> is are just amazingly stupid.  If the machine crashses in the middle of
> an access, it doesn't matter that your data is on raid, you can still
> screw it up.
> 
> You put it all on raid or you don't bother.

How do you put OS partition on a raid?

Don't you have to use either hardware raid card or builtin chipset on
motherboard?  If so, how do you move your disks to another computer, if
your raid card or motherboard dies?

-- 
William

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