I Don't disagree with you on that - the app/load matters a lot My experience has been comparing SCSI RAID against IDE Soft RAID in high use configs (admittedly the IDA Soft RAID was a little ancient)
Have you had any experience with SATA RAID cards and Linux Mark ? Be interested to hear your experience/views on that Martin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Rogers Sent: 14 May 2008 16:18 To: Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts Subject: Re: [Peterboro] FS/FF Lots of hard disks + DLT7000 drive+tapes Martin Nix wrote: > Software RAID does not scale too well I'm afraid (in my experience) > It depends what the application is. Software RAID via Linux in my experience is better than fake RAID as implemented on cheap RAID cards. Pay a couple of hundred quid for a half-decent card and of-course that's better. But you can pick up a server for around £150 these days, and add 4-off 500GB drives for another £200. At that level almost doubling the cost to add a decent hardware RAID card to the equation makes little sense (albeit more sense than doubling the cost to stick Windows server onto it!) -- 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
