On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 23:14 -0700, Christopher Baus wrote: > Well my Supermicro showed up today. I ordered, three identical harddrives > (in case one failed) and a 3ware card for RAID 1. When I got home, I > opened the box only to realize that it doesn't have a 64 bit PCI slot. > Crap. Now what? I'm currently considering software RAID. > > I've used various SCSI, SATA, and IDE raids over the years, but never > software RAIDs. What is your experience with software RAIDs? Are they a > reasonable choice for reliability? Is it possible easily to rebuild after > a failure? High performance is a lower priority than reliability.
I've had a software raid device fail, but all I had to do was just set
the other disk up to boot and I was okay. I didn't do a recovery, just
backed up the data from the good disk and did a clean install on a new
pair of (larger) disks.
Rebuilds after an OS crash can take a lot time, and really lag the
system pretty badly. I have had some problems with Gentoo and software
RAID (probably not Gentoo's fault though), but now I am running FC3 Test
1 with the RAID 1 device as the boot drive and I haven't had any
problems.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md0 : active raid1 hda1[1] hdc1[0]
194330176 blocks [2/2] [UU]
unused devices: <none>
BTW, if you don't want that 3ware card, I can find a good home for it.
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