New to Amahi, hdd question

[TylerW]

Hi everyone. I just created an Amahi account and have not yet installed Fedora14. I am new to Amahi but by no means new to linux. My signature lists the hardware I'm working with. Just a quick question:

I do not yet have any hard drives. Probably going to pick up 8x 250gb IDE drives from my father in a couple weeks. Originally I was going to install amahi onto this RAID5 array, but I just found a 36GB SCSI drive for cheap and was considering using this as a boot drive. I know the requirements for amahi say only 4gb disk, but assuming I have a few apps and such would I be fine using a 36GB (less after formatting) drive for my fedora/amahi install? Is it generally recommended? I'm thinking my slow system might benefit from the 10k drive speed that's separate from the array.

Thanks.

[TylerW]

I've also been reading a little about greyhole. I see that it doesn't offer redundancy in the same way that RAID does, but that you can specify how many copies of a file to make. This is a nice feature, but if I only want one copy of each file is there any benefit in using this over RAID? I couldn't think of any, even with just one copy of each file I would have half the amount of overall disk space using greyhole.