Case 3: Home Use (Digital Audio, Video, and Images)
With the increasing capacity and availability of digital media, users will find it difficult to contain their files on a single hard disk. Linear mode and RAID-0 arrays provide a good storage architecture for storing MP3 audio, video, and image files. Often, these files are burned to CD or are easily replaceable, so the lack of redundancy in linear mode and RAID-0 can be overlooked. Users can opt to make backups of files that are either important or hard to replace.
A quick trip to a surplus warehouse or .COM auction might get you a supply of older, cheap hard disks that can be combined into a linear array. If you can find matched disks, then RAID-0 will work well in this case. A mix of different drives can be turned into a linear mode array. Both of these methods are perfect for home use because they maximize what might have become old and useless storage space and turn it into usable disk space.
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