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On Dec 15, 2004, at 10:04 PM, cb wrote:
On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 12:09 -0500, Zachary Bedell wrote:I didn't have the money, so I ended up getting a cheap HighPoint card and using Linux software RAID to replace my FastTrack. The FastTrack is definitely faster than softRAID in terms of throughput, but I'd rather have safer, slower data personally.
What is the consensus on using md/LVM with FastTrak cards? Are all of Promise' problems within the RAID driver ? Have to ask, I just built a 360gb RAID5 off of one of their new SATA 4 channel cards.. the drivers looked scary so i said screw it, i'll MD it. that should be safe, I thought
Since my little "accident," I've been using the Promise as a backup array (to which I rsync the content of my primary array periodically). I set the thing up as "Just a Bunch Of Disks" with Linux soft RAID-5 (md, no LVM for me). No problems with it since.
I took a bit of a speed hit in the process. MD isn't quite as fast as using Promise's pseudo soft/hard RAID solution. I'm still using Promise's kludgy drivers, but it works well enough. I no longer trust it as my sole data store; but as a backup, I'd say it's good enough.
Best regards, Zac Bedell
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