"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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>>> I mean, *now* I have multiple seperate physical HDs so it's kind of 
>>> unavoidable having seperate logical volumes.
>>
>> No, it isn't. With RAID you can combine several HDs to one logical 
>> volume, which even can hold if one of the disks break down.
>
> Does anybody actually use RAID on a home system?
>

Yup. My 'server' has four 160 GB sata drives in a RAID 5 config. Since it's 
also my first stage backup location, I wanted redundancy. Just wish I'd 
bought larger drives.

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