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Originally Posted by Zzyzx 
Just fold. Don't need to restart then.
You'd probably see better times with a RAID controller; the PERC 5/i option looks enticing.
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actually the perc 5/i is torture on bootup for me anyhow. the initialization part literally offsets the speed increase from "power to login" however for the first minute after login is much smoother than without the perc 5/i!
i do wonder, if it would initialize faster with a non redundant array, i.e. raid0?
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Originally Posted by Ictinike 
Well the hard part would be biting the bullet on the controller. Once you have it, since you had already planned to have a 4 drive RAID5, then all you have to do is now wait until the funds present themselves for the remaining drives.
Win/Win in my book.. If you can wait for the extra drives the card now, for the entire array later, would be best IMO. If you'll stick with just the 2 drives and the perc/i then no, not worth it IMO.
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that is the bullet that should be bitten IMO
the perc 5/i is sweet IMO! and with the ability to rebuild the array (usually) without data loss means you wouldn't even have to reformat to add new drives/change raid
and think. seagate just announced their first sata3 device.. i bet the performance on platter drives will be minimal.. so wait for price drops!!! (on sata2)
then fill your array with 8 drives