> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:33:29 -0400 > > >> You are definitely making your life more difficult then is needed for a >> desktop machine. >> >> You said you have 4 hard disks. Make a software RAID1 out of the first two. >> Make a software RAID1 out of the second two and your good to go. >> >> You can use dump/restore to backup the logical volumes on the second >> RAID set to an LV on the first. >> >> No need for bare metal restore. Just need to get some working Linux distro >> to be able to read your files. >> >> Going HW RAID for your desktop is going to get in the way of you getting >> things going and if your HW RAID card fails then what? Your drives will only >> work with another identical HW RAID card. >> >> -Ross > > That makes total sense Ross, I think I may end up going with software raid > and investing in a good hot swap redundant power supply > that would fit into an ATX case, combined with a good UPS. > > That brings up a last question on possiblity of either a 3ware or acrea RAID > 1 cards. I'm wondering how long I would be able to order > a replacement RAID card from either of 3ware or areea. Anyone know if 3ware > or acrea stock identical replacement cards for their SATA 4 port raid cards > for several years out? Do they stock past the three year warranty period?
ACTUALLY I totally forgot. I absoluteluy can not use software raid. Because I use Adobe products. Adobe products do not install well on software raid systems, and tend to crash on software raid beacuse of their activation process. If I go raid, I absolutely need a hardware raid which is entirely transparent to the operating system, at least as far as adobe products are concerned. _________________________________________________________________ Climb to the top of the charts! Play the word scramble challenge with star power. http://club.live.com/star_shuffle.aspx?icid=starshuffle_wlmailtextlink_jan_______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
