hi folks,

all my netbsd raid experience is some time ago with scsi (u2w) drives.

Now, I want to build an server for about 30 (office) clients. The main target is data safety and the second is speed. I want to start with:

2 120.0GB Seagate Barracuda ATA V drives, NetBSD RAID 1 software raid.

If the data amount will grow, I will add an el-cheapo PCI-EIDE controller card and add another 2 drives. 

Another option would be to go the "ICP Vortex way" but is that worth the money?
An Pentium 4 > 2GHz should be able to do it in software fast enough I guess.

I want to be able to boot from any drive, if one fails. (I do not care if I have to add a small partition on each drive)

Any comments/real world expericences? The box will have gigabit lan (on Tyan Trinity GC-SL S2707) that should work with the "wm" driver?!

Thanks!

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