Quoting Gerald Timothy Quimpo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I'm going to set up a secondary SMB server (primary web, email, DNS
> server) at a client. I'd like to have RAID-1. To keep price down, I'll
> be using IDE drives. I don't expect there to be a lot of pressure on the
> drives, so I don't need extreme performance. They already have a
> RAID-1 NT server (historical, if the Linux SMB server works well, we
> may drop the NT server) as their primary server.
>
> Is Software Raid good enough?
Absolutely, if you can find an ATA ("IDE") host adapter with enough
chains to put each hard drive on a chain by itself.
Performance will be very good. There will be some CPU loading, but
that's OK, since a typical Linux host has vast amounts of untapped CPU
capacity going to waste.
> If I should go with hardware RAID, which IDE RAID cards do people
> recommend?
3Ware's.
> For those who suggest software RAID, are there special tips?
It's pretty straight-forward, these days. It's come a long way, from
the old days.
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Rick Moen
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