Software RAID does not scale too well I'm afraid (in my experience) Martin
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Rogers Sent: 14 May 2008 13:32 To: Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts Subject: Re: [Peterboro] FS/FF Lots of hard disks + DLT7000 drive+tapes Andy Taylor wrote: > > Anyone got a use for them? I would like to swap them for a PCI IDE > RAID controller that's supported under Linux. > I find that software RAID is at least as good as basic "hardware" RAID (unless you're paying at least three digits for a RAID card you're getting software RAID anyway). I've used a number of RAID configurations over the years and software RAID has caused me the least grief, not to mention that I'm more confident that I should be able to recover the data if the server dies and I have to move the drives to another machine with completely different hardware. Of-course software RAID isn't an option under Windows so there's still a place for the cheap cards, and if you don't have the spare IDE channels you'll need the card for that (I'd still disable RAID, though, and use software RAID instead). -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
