on 3-14-2008 8:22 AM Therese Trudeau spake the following:
That brings up a last question on possiblity of either a
3ware or acrea RAID 1 cards. I'm wondering how long I would
be able to order
a replacement RAID card from either of 3ware or areea.
Anyone know if 3ware or acrea stock identical replacement
cards for their SATA 4 port raid cards
for several years out? Do they stock past the three year
warranty period?
ACTUALLY I totally forgot. I absoluteluy can not use
software raid. Because I use Adobe products. Adobe products
do not install
well on software raid systems, and tend to crash on software
raid beacuse of their activation process. If I go raid, I
absolutely need a hardware raid
which is entirely transparent to the operating system, at
least as far as adobe products are concerned.
What Adobe products do you use under Linux? I did not know
that Adobe offered products outside of Reader and Flash
for Linux.
Besides, where did you read that Adobe products don't
work on RAID systems?
The RAID part will be well hidden under the Logical Volume
Manager even if the first is true.
RAID1 can speed up sequential read speed, as a well
designed RAID implementation can stripe the read requests
across both spindles (and dm-raid does that!).
Ah I figured someone would ask that. I use pretty much all major adobe
products, Photoshop,
Illustrator, Flash, just about the entire suite.
I have two home workstation machines.
One is Centos, and one is Windows (the one I use Adobe on). I'd prefer if
possible
to have the same type of RAID cards on both machines, because easier to
manage and if I ever decide to sell or give away one machine, I can pull
the raid card and use it as a backup.
From experience I have learned that Photoshop will not install on software raid
on my W2K machine - I tried it
two years ago, could not get it to install, and after a few days trying to get
it to work, called
Adobe tech support and at that time the tech support person told me
that their products don't run on software raid because they don't want people
having
multiple copies of one license on a second drive (unless it's for their
second copy allowance for a laptop or second machine owned by same person,
and only one or the other - the laptop or second desktop are run at the same
time -
my second copy is on a laptop ).
Also I may at some time migrate my adobe products to the
Linux machine and run Adobe on WINE on the Linux box. Google
just started working with the folks over @ WINE, and they want
to make it so all adobe products run flawlessly on Linux - WINE, not just
photoshop and illustrator. Today some adobe products run on wine well, some
don't,
in a few years they all will run well on a linux box using WINE. I'm not sure
about running adobe using software raid on a linux box and WINE - never tried it, but going with
hareware raid on the linux box eliminates another possible unknown.
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The software raid implementation in windows is a far cry from the linux
version. Windows can't boot from their dynamic arrays, linux can. And the
raid in linux is more transparent to the software, as the linux raid is just
another device as far as the software is concerned. The kernel keeps full
isolation and control.
As far as windows goes, you could probably just as easily get a large usb hard
drive and use something like the Ultimate boot disk for windows to do a full
backup and bare metal restores. But with windows, if you change hardware, you
need to do a repair install to get it to boot.
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