So I was thinking about having a file server

[mattbrown91]

I've got a machine sorted out for it,

I just need to buy the storage and I was thinking, why not RAID it...

I'll be buying 2*250Gig hard disks. The thing which tempts me is that it will be something to do and I would quite like to think that my data is safe. So I want resilience.
RAID 1, this is mirroring, which is what I want.


I was thinking of this
Adaptec AAR-1220SA PCI-Express x1 2-Port SATA-II RAID Controller

Which I think has everything I would need.

So the question......
How easy is it to set it all up, is it just a plug in and play sort of thing where you plug in the card, plug the discs into it and flick a switch which would say RAID1 between the discs on port 1 and 2...yadda yadda yadda...

And away it goes OR does it require a lot of configuring ?

 

[mattbrown91]

I was under the assumption/I was working on the fact that if the motherboard decided to fail then you lost the array. Then again, I suppose it's just as likely to fail as the card...

Hmm....