Dream RAID System

[Bryan Batchelder]

Hi everyone--

        I have a question for everyone on the list:  What hardware would you use
for a RAID system?  I want it to be as robust as possible.  It does not need
to be all that fast (equiv. or better than UDMA33 would be nice).  I am
concerned with failover mostly -- Hot swap and reconstruction.

        I am putting together a quote for a box that will serve as a DB/Web server,
and data protection is the only important feature required.  Are there any
concerns with hot swapping between RAID personalities (RAID5 and RAID1
mainly)....does one work better over the other when reconstruction comes
around?

SCSI or IDE, and which cards of each have best support for hot swap?

Thanks in advance.

--bryan