True, if it did die whilst out on the road then you're stuck. But it would be much safer and cheaper to store it all on a normal HD. Using rip off UK prices for hardware you can get a 120GB desktop HD for the same price as a 30GB laptop drive. Speaking of which, anybody know when the next size over 60GB is coming out? I want the prices to drop a bit more so I can upgrade my laptop

I suppose you can get around the problem of having to mount the RAID metadevice instead of hda? by fudging the kernel like what was done for ext3. For maximum reliability you'd also want ext3 to ensure the integrity of the FS.

- Trevor