[mythtv-users] RAID5 ATA IDE hardware card recommendations for mythbackend machine

[Milos Prudek]

> 3ware is what I'd recommend.  Promise is cheap for both cost and
> quality.  I prefer spending the money for the card on another drive and
> getting a cheap $10 PCI ide card and doing software raid5.  I've done
> this with many systems and it's more reliable than promise cards.

Since you have experience with software raid, I'd like to ask:

Is it possible to go from single drive (no RAID) configuration 
to RAID-5 simpy by adding two more harddisks without 
reformatting or backups? It's difficult to backup current 
harddisks due to their sheer size...

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Milos Prudek
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