Question about RAIDs (what's RAID 0, 1 ,etc.)

[Arkitech]

I just recently scored a free Compaq Proliant ML330 from a company that was getting rid of their old server. I would like to install Linux on the box, but I don't want to use the RAID. I'd prefer to have 2 separate drives. So which option should I select to use 2 independent drives RAID 0, 1, 0+1 or Spare Pool? Or should I be doing something entirely different?

 

[mfenn]

The Wikipedia article has nice diagrams that explain what each RAID level is. Basically, RAID 1 is mirroring, RAID 0 is striping, RAID 0+1 is a mirror of two RAID 0s. If you don't add drives to any RAID volumes within the RAID controller, they should function as independent disks.