Software RAID is usually much less
expensive than hardware RAID, but is also considered to provide slightly slower
performance.
openSUSE will support either type of RAID implementation. In fact, setting up a software
RAID array on openSUSE is quite simple with the YaST Expert Partitioner.
CAUTION
It is always best to set up a RAID array when first installing openSUSE so that nothing
can happen to your existing data when you??™re working with the Expert Partitioner.
The steps outlined here apply when you have purchased a drive to serve as your mirror
drive after your initial installation. Be sure to back up critical files before starting this
process. You will be changing the partition table for your system as part of the setup.
Before installing the new drive, you should convert your Root partition to change the
SystemID. Start Expert Partitioner by going to YaST, System, Partitioner. Select your Root
partition (marked Linux Native /) and click Edit. In the resulting dialog box, click Do Not
Format. Use the drop-down menu to change the File System ID to 0xFD Linux RAID.
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