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

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 gsslist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anything that kills your motherboard (short circuit in the memory, CPU overheating, etc.) also takes

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 gsslist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an existing setup that uses four

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.

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

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

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

Re: Advice: Hardware vs. Software RAID5

2008-01-15 Thread tofu . oni
On Jan 15, 9:10 am, Gregory Seidman gsslist [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 data you'll need the same RAID controller doh! I hadn't thought of

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 gsslist [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

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 gsslist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anything that kills your motherboard (short circuit in the memory, CPU overheating,