Following is a plan made sometime in late 2007 or early 2008 for me to get all data onto a stable linux hard drive platform. I had at the time, a windows machine (with lots of mp3s, docs, etc), sues mac laptop, old linux hdd's (movies, songs, data, etc).

====== Conversion Plan ======
  * C: (36.7 GB), D: (20 GB), F: (200 GB) "backed up" on them selves
  * C: mirrored to other raptor
  * C:, D:, F: backed up to 320 GB drive
  * backup mac laptop to 320 GB drive
    * separate partition??
    * dont need now, as the laptop is not being gotten rid of
  * -Nagios- Zenoss look into

====== Transfer Data Plan ======
  * install fresh 8.04 ubuntu (EVMS)
    * get EVMS to work on it and mount
  * install fresh 8.04 ubuntu (RAID 5) on different HDD
    * research, learn, implement and test SATA RAID 5 with mdadm
  * mount stable RAID 5 to 8.04 ubuntu (EVMS)
    * transfer data on EVMS to RAID 5
  * Bring back RAID 5 to non-EVMS OS
    * do final testing
    * copy over other data (old XP data) (movies on macs)
  * implement -NFS- -SMB- AFP