Re: Advice: Hardware vs. Software RAID5

2008-01-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-01-17 02:15:55, schrieb Scott Gifford: > Also, some hardware RAID systems require the system to be offline to > do a rebuild, which is less than ideal. Never had such Hardware-Raids... Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consult

Re: Advice: Hardware vs. Software RAID5

2008-01-16 Thread Scott Gifford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] > The motherboard I'm using is an intel d945gnt. It has an intel Martix > driver that will let me do RAID 5 in the bios. Then, linux should see > one big whopping device. That sounds like the easiest solution to me. > > Option two is to use linux software RAID.

Re: Advice: Hardware vs. Software RAID5

2008-01-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 09:28:30AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Jan 15, 2008, at 6:14 PM, Gregory Seidman wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 03:40:15PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>On Jan 15, 9:10 am, Gregory Seidman >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I have an existing setup that uses fo

Re: Advice: Hardware vs. Software RAID5

2008-01-16 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 15, 2008, at 6:14 PM, Gregory Seidman wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 03:40:15PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 15, 9:10 am, Gregory Seidman wrote: anything that kills your motherboard (short circuit in the memory, CPU overheating, etc.) also takes out your RAID controller. T

Re: Advice: Hardware vs. Software RAID5

2008-01-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:14:26PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 03:40:15PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Jan 15, 9:10 am, Gregory Seidman > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > anything that > > > kills your motherboard (short circuit in the memory, CPU overheating,

Re: Advice: Hardware vs. Software RAID5

2008-01-15 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 03:40:15PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Jan 15, 9:10 am, Gregory Seidman [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > anything that > > kills your motherboard (short circuit in the memory, CPU overheating, etc.) > > also takes out your RAID controller. To be able to access your d

Re: Advice: Hardware vs. Software RAID5

2008-01-15 Thread tofu . oni
On Jan 15, 9:10 am, Gregory Seidman wrote: > anything that > kills your motherboard (short circuit in the memory, CPU overheating, etc.) > also takes out your RAID controller. To be able to access your data you'll > need the same RAID controller doh! I hadn't thought of that. Thanks. Software

Re: Advice: Hardware vs. Software RAID5

2008-01-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 06:24:52AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm looking for general advice/tips/admonitions of doom. I'm getting > ready to build a file server and I want to have some data redundancy. > I've ordered four 350G SATA drives and I plan to put them into some > kind of RAID 5 c

Re: Advice: Hardware vs. Software RAID5

2008-01-15 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 06:24:52AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm looking for general advice/tips/admonitions of doom. I'm getting > ready to build a file server and I want to have some data redundancy. > I've ordered four 350G SATA drives and I plan to put them into some > kind of RAID 5 c

Advice: Hardware vs. Software RAID5

2008-01-15 Thread tofu . oni
I'm looking for general advice/tips/admonitions of doom. I'm getting ready to build a file server and I want to have some data redundancy. I've ordered four 350G SATA drives and I plan to put them into some kind of RAID 5 configuration. The boot disk will be a separate IDE drive. The motherboard