I would like to thank everyone for their advice. After considering my
situation, I decided to try the software RAID 5 and see what happened. I
put my system drive (500GB Western Digital) plus 4 of the RAID drives
(750GB Samsung) on the motherboard. One RAID drive is on a PCI-E SATA
controller ca
arag...@dcsnow.com wrote:
My original idea was to put them in a RAID 5 configuration. This sounded
good until I started researching RAID controller cards. It looks like it
will cost me $520 to get a good PCI-E card (3Ware 8 port). I don't think
I want to spend that much if I don't have to.
M
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 14:53:34 -0600,
Seann Clark wrote:
>
> The biggest advantage with hardware RAID is you don't need to boot to be
> able to fix your RAID. Minor difference for some of your more hardcore
> computer guys, and rather trivial, but it is nice to see your RAID is
> shatter
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:39:44 -0500,
arag...@dcsnow.com wrote:
> 2) I want to increase my performance. I have benchmarked my read and
> write performance to and from this server. Using Samba, I seem to be able
> to get about 50Mb/sec reads and 40Mb/sec writes. I am on a gig network
> and w
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 18:20 +, Alan Cox wrote:
> > So considering that, what do you gain from dedicated hardware for RAID?
> > You get a commercially supported RAID software and hardware package, and
> > you get to unload a bit of CPU from the main system.
>
> The big thing it saves you on
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 14:53 -0600, Seann Clark wrote:
> The biggest advantage with hardware RAID is you don't need to boot to
> be
> able to fix your RAID. Minor difference for some of your more
> hardcore
> computer guys, and rather trivial, but it is nice to see your RAID is
> shattered prior
>> 1) Bite the bullet and get the hardware RAID controller. Will this give
>> me the performance I want?
>
> That depends on the rest of the system - you get to play "move the
bottleneck". It will then depend on your PCI-X controller, your memory
bandwidth and if you have the CPU 8). The 3ware is
Robin Laing wrote:
Alan Cox wrote:
So considering that, what do you gain from dedicated hardware for
RAID? You get a commercially supported RAID software and hardware
package, and you get to unload a bit of CPU from the main system.
The big thing it saves you on in RAID 1 & 5 is memory bandw
Alan Cox wrote:
So considering that, what do you gain from dedicated hardware for RAID?
You get a commercially supported RAID software and hardware package, and
you get to unload a bit of CPU from the main system.
The big thing it saves you on in RAID 1 & 5 is memory bandwidth, and in
RAID5 d
> So considering that, what do you gain from dedicated hardware for RAID?
> You get a commercially supported RAID software and hardware package, and
> you get to unload a bit of CPU from the main system.
The big thing it saves you on in RAID 1 & 5 is memory bandwidth, and in
RAID5 doubly so for
arag...@dcsnow.com wrote:
Hello all,
I had a drive failure a few months back so I decided it was time to rework
my home server's storage.
Now I have 5 750GB SATA dives and now I need some advice on how to set
things up.
My original idea was to put them in a RAID 5 configuration. This sounded
arag...@dcsnow.com wrote:
Hello all,
I had a drive failure a few months back so I decided it was time to rework
my home server's storage.
Now I have 5 750GB SATA dives and now I need some advice on how to set
things up.
My original idea was to put them in a RAID 5 configuration. This sounded
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 12:39 -0500, arag...@dcsnow.com wrote:
> 1) I want to get some redundancy in case of a drive failure.
>
> 2) I want to increase my performance. I have benchmarked my read and
> write performance to and from this server. Using Samba, I seem to be able
> to get about 50Mb/se
On Friday 23 January 2009 09:39:44 am arag...@dcsnow.com wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I had a drive failure a few months back so I decided it was time to rework
> my home server's storage.
>
> Now I have 5 750GB SATA dives and now I need some advice on how to set
> things up.
>
> My original idea was to
> 1) Bite the bullet and get the hardware RAID controller. Will this give
> me the performance I want?
That depends on the rest of the system - you get to play "move the
bottleneck". It will then depend on your PCI-X controller, your memory
bandwidth and if you have the CPU 8). The 3ware is at l
Hello all,
I had a drive failure a few months back so I decided it was time to rework
my home server's storage.
Now I have 5 750GB SATA dives and now I need some advice on how to set
things up.
My original idea was to put them in a RAID 5 configuration. This sounded
good until I started researc
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