Steven Kay wrote:
Thanks for the help. When you say the software raid has caused you a lot
of problems, what kinda problems has it caused you? Hard to set up? Not
reliable? The Raid controllers are really expensive and I wanted to
avoid purchasing one if possible but I still wanted to maintain some
redundancy for if a hard drive were to crap out.
I had a few other questions.
If later on I wanted to use this server (the dell 420c) for say a
regular office machine, or to play some games on. Would it be
possible/practicle to do so.
Also if I do choose to get my own server would a regular business/server
telus line be enough to do the hosting? 1Mbps Upstream and 2.5 Mbps
downstream? I'm guessing not but.....
I'm going to look more into leased servers and see if that's the path I
should take.
Coming in late on this, sorry, but I think software RAID is perfectly
fine for even large servers.
In a "production" environment, I'm using OpenBSD RAIDFrame and Solaris
DiskSuite, and they've worked flawlessly (although the latter is slow).
Linux "LVM" I think may be different than your generic Linux software
RAID (Which may or may not just be called "MD"). For a while I had a
RAID-0 setup with this, and no problems.
RAID aside, I'd also take a look at a leased server. Not from a price
perspective, but from a "looking after hardware" one. Unless you can
afford a good hardware support contract, or have backup servers, having
a company look after hardware for you can go a long way in letting you
sleep well at night.
Chris
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