On 14/08/06, Mgr. Peter Tuharsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter, > > as of RAID, it completely depends on the controller. The "less > expensive" controllers only support RAID 0, 1 and possibly 10. Only the > "more expensive" controllers can handle RAID5 because of much more > complicated logic, data checksumming etc.. I can only speak about > Adaptec SCSI controllers since we have 3 of these, but the RAID5 capable > controller costs at least $500. >
Digressing.... And that $$$ is the reason why I find using software raid with mdadm works for me very well thank you. I know for "serious" hardware sepcs raid cards are recommended but having run seven/eight servers with raid1 specs using software raid I am much satisfied. -- Regards, Sudev Barar ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
