Re: Hardware RAID Cards..

2005-05-31 Thread Toomas Aas
Aaron C. Meadows wrote: I have an IBM Netfinity 5000 server I just picked up, and it has an Adaptec AAA-131U2 (aic7815 chipset) RAID card in it, attached to 5 IBM Branded (Seagate ST39204LC) Hot Swap Ultra160 9.1gig SCSI Harddrives. My question is, since that chipset is unsupported for

Re: Hardware RAID Cards..

2005-05-26 Thread Aaron C. Meadows
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kirk Strauser wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 14:48, Aaron C. Meadows wrote: I'm planning on using RAID 5, since they are kind of small drives, and I'm more interested in reliability and size, than speed. Hmmm - I'd probably look toward a

Re: Hardware RAID Cards..

2005-05-26 Thread Tony Shadwick
Just be careful on what card you choose. Aside from simply making sure there are drivers for it, you also have to check on the little things. Like, oh, being able to non-destructively grow the size of the RAID5 array. I bought a Promise SX6000. I have 3 200GB drives that will be in RAID5.

Re: Hardware RAID Cards..

2005-05-26 Thread Luke Dean
On Tue, 24 May 2005, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:57, Aaron C. Meadows wrote: My question is, since that chipset is unsupported for hardware RAID, would I be better off to software RAID them, or get a different RAID card? What RAID level do you plan on using? Mirroring

Hardware RAID Cards..

2005-05-24 Thread Aaron C. Meadows
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there. I have an IBM Netfinity 5000 server I just picked up, and it has an Adaptec AAA-131U2 (aic7815 chipset) RAID card in it, attached to 5 IBM Branded (Seagate ST39204LC) Hot Swap Ultra160 9.1gig SCSI Harddrives. My question is, since that

Re: Hardware RAID Cards..

2005-05-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:57, Aaron C. Meadows wrote: My question is, since that chipset is unsupported for hardware RAID, would I be better off to software RAID them, or get a different RAID card? What RAID level do you plan on using? Mirroring shouldn't use much CPU, for example, but

Re: Hardware RAID Cards..

2005-05-24 Thread Aaron C. Meadows
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm planning on using RAID 5, since they are kind of small drives, and I'm more interested in reliability and size, than speed. Kirk Strauser wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:57, Aaron C. Meadows wrote: My question is, since that chipset is

Re: Hardware RAID Cards..

2005-05-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 14:48, Aaron C. Meadows wrote: I'm planning on using RAID 5, since they are kind of small drives, and I'm more interested in reliability and size, than speed. Hmmm - I'd probably look toward a hardware system, then. I've had great luck with software mirroring and