<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">hi, and sorry for not being clear enough!<div><br></div><div>i'll rephrase my question: is it reasonable or safe to partition a 2Tb hard drive configured as raid0, or am i looking for trouble?</div><div><br></div><div>i'm no expert, but the thought of merging two 1Tb drives together and then partitioning them into 2 (or more) partitions just seems awkward…</div><div><br></div><div>as for the reliability of the drive; yes i thinks it's reliable. but since i need to buy yet another drive (to have an off-site back-up, not because the MyBook isn't reliable…!) i know it won't be a western digital: the auto sleep mode is not user-configurable, the in-house formatting utility doesn't offer enough flexibilty, etc…</div><div><br></div><div>hope i've made myself clearer. </div><div><br></div><div>kind regards, alexandre</div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 1, 2008, at 11:18 , Eugene wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 03:51:52AM CDT, alexandre <<a href="mailto:list@kapellos.com">list@kapellos.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">hi (and sorry for what maybe a dumb question?)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">is it ok to partition a hard drive that's configured as raid0?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">i've just bought a western digital mybook studio edition II and it can't <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">be configured as jbod :-( and i don't want my daily back-ups to be on the <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the partition/drive/whatever as my archives.<br></blockquote><br>Unless you are working with dozens or hundreds of hard drives,<br>anything like JBOD or RAID 0 is impractical for most users.<br>What exactly are you want to do? Daily backups on your new<br>external drive? CarbonCopyCloner should be enough. And what<br>kind of backup do you mean? Without more specific information,<br>I broadly state that partitioning should be avoided.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">on a side note, i'll be buying a second 2Tb drive to have an offsite <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">back-up of my back-up. this will probably be a lacie drive. i'm not <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">entirely convinced by the mybook?<br></blockquote><br>What is your question? Are you asking whether your WD MyBook<br>is reliable?</div></blockquote></div></div><div> </div><br></body></html>