It will be nice when SSD prices come down (and capacity goes up). No more mechanical failures, then just have to worry about when the flash wears out. Still a downside in that even if a mechanical drive fails, you can sometimes still get the data back by swapping the logic board or having a professional data recovery service get the data off the platters. If an SSD drive fails it's probably hard to find a specialist with the equipment for munging data from the flash.
Joe Fleming wrote: > Yeah, booting from RAID has always been a little tricky. I actually boot > from a different 80GB drive and run the 4 drives off their own SATA > controller. So, the system is up, I just need to get the array back up > so I can (hopefully) continue copying the data off the array. > > If anyone cares, I'm using the Promise TX4 card, just straight up SATA, > no fakeraid or anything like that. It's an old box with only PCI.... the > card has and continues to work flawlessly. > > One day I'll build a REAL RAID machine. This one was working fine for a > while, and probably would have continued to do so if the damn drives > would stop failing! > > -Joe > > Stephen wrote: > >> Linux raid is ok, but it does not recover well if it is invovled with >> your boot partition. in our storage server we are useing a 2 port raid >> card and then 6 onboard ports with linux mraid. >> >> --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
