Klaus Schroer wrote:
> I think the low cost versions don't do a good job performance wise. I
> guess putting in some more memory on the controller might increase
> performance a bit (DPT writing is extremely slow). But again for about
> 600$ you don't get a performance boost but more reliability. So either pay
> more for the hardware solution or use software raid and pay the time you
> spend to set it up.
I have given some thought to this, main problem with Linux-raid is that
you can't boot from it. You need to have separate boot-device, floppy or
small ide, floppy is inconvinient, ide will break :(
Maybe optimum solution is to use cheap hardware raid-1 as boot/root device
and then appropiate software raid for the rest. If you need speed then
use raid 0+1 else use raid-5
Cheers..
ps. are there hardware raid-controllers for ide, minimum possible,
just two ide-disks mirrored ?
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