Raid 5 or JBOD?

[TheConcealedCracker]

Hi, I'm just a newb of a kid who wants to install Linux on a Mac. Because it won't boot from a flash drive, I don't want to install drivers (I'm too much of a newb), and it stopped booting from cd, my only solution is to boot from a partition on the hard drive via Virtualbox (I'll let you know if that fails), and install like that. I want to give Linux 40G of space, but I want to combine a 20G partition with a 64G flash drive. My question is, should I use JBOD or RAID 5 if I want to take out my flash drive regularly?

And how do I set up RAID 5 without Disk Utility? It only supports RAID 0, RAID 1 (which I want to stay away from) and JBOD.

 

[Ijack]

1. Drives in a RAID array need to be the same size.

2. RAID 5 requires at leat 3 drives.

3. There is no real advantage to RAID (particularly in your situation).

4. You can't combine the drives if you are going to take one out regularly.

 

[4745454b]

Correct. No RAID, just use the drives separately.

 

[TheConcealedCracker]

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I can just use JBOD without unplugging the flash drive.
But, as a last resort, can I use LVM?

Thanks,

C2