On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 11:53:58AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 05:40:47PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: > > i intend to setup a workstation for quantum mechanical calculations > > (organic > > chemistry) with a couple of amd64 dualcore 265 and a couple of STA hard > > disks > > 360GB raid 1 (mirroring for security reasons). > > > > Do you think that mainboard Tyan Thunder S2877ANDF x 2 Dual Opteron under > > debian testing/unstable provides adequate raid 1 support without going to > > expensive 3ware products? I plan to have 2GB ram, but that is not enough > > for > > the calculations and frequent access to disk occurs. > > > > Remember that i am based in italy where the market is under rigid control > > by > > whom you can easily imagine so that it is not easy to get what one wants > > (for > > example main boards). i am happy when i meet a handler who follows my linux > > requests, most do not. > > raid1 is trivial to do with just the cpu. Writing is simply writing the > same data to both drives (no calculations requried) and reqding is just > comparing the data (or just read one copy). No need for hardware raid > for raid1 at all. > > Len Sorensen
And from what I've heard, Linux's software raid is more reliable and simple than most hardware RAIDs. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
