[NTLUG:Discuss] LVM Span and data loss

[Brett]

I've been reading through various docs and can't seem to find a
definative answer on this...

I have two 250 GB drives... I want span them so I have one big '500GB'
drive for the samba server to share out to my home network... this
will be used to store recorded shows and movies... sooooo ... if one
of the 250 GB drives goes out on me, is all the data on the other
drive useless like if I was using RAID 0 ? It seems to fill the drive
up and then move to the next from some of the descriptions... but I
may be reading it all wrong.

Thanks for any help!

Brett