On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 10:46 -0600, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 10:02 -0600, Kenneth Burgener wrote: > > My first question is, is there a decent RAID 5 card within the $20, > > $80, and $120 range? > > I actually prefer software raid to cheap hardware cards. At least you > know what you are getting into. I'd expect to pay more then any of > those for something decent.
Most consumer raid cards are really just software raid done in the driver anyway. I've seen benchmarks that showed Linux' software RAID works very well (RAID 0,1,5). I have been quite happy with software RAID for my home machine. I know that Andrew McNabb is using about a terabyte or more done with software RAID. As has been mentioned in the past, RAID 10 (or is it 0+1 -- I can't remember) can give you many of the benefits of RAID 5 but is simpler in some ways. Basically the desired configuration is a striping across 2 or more RAID-1 (mirrored) sets. > > My 2 cents. > > -- > Gabriel Gunderson > http://gundy.org > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
