Best software raid 5 software?

2007-03-21 Thread Gabriel Rossetti
Hello, I am about to switch to software raid 5 for my personal server. I know hardware raid 5 is better, but being a student I'd rather not invest in a raid adapter now, plus my cpu is being used at about 0.0% 24/24 7/7, so it needs some exercise :-) I've heard of several software-based

Re: Best software raid 5 software?

2007-03-21 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 03:03:53 am Gabriel Rossetti wrote: I am about to switch to software raid 5 for my personal server. I know hardware raid 5 is better, but being a student I'd rather not invest in a raid adapter now, plus my cpu is being used at about 0.0% 24/24 7/7, so it needs some

Re: Best software raid 5 software?

2007-03-21 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2007/03/21 6:33, John Nielsen seems to have typed: On Wednesday 21 March 2007 03:03:53 am Gabriel Rossetti wrote: I am about to switch to software raid 5 for my personal server. I know hardware raid 5 is better, but being a student I'd rather not invest in a raid adapter now, plus my cpu

Software RAID 5

2006-01-31 Thread Michael
Hello there, I have a Dell Power Edge 2400 system with 4 X 18 GB SCSI Drives. I would like to use a software Raid 5 using FreeBSD 5.4. Any suggestions on how to go about doing it? I have read so many articles, it makes my head hurt. There are many options, for mirroring, but some are better

Recommended Software RAID-5 on dual-amd64

2005-08-29 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi all, I have a dual Opteron box built with http://tyan.com/products/html/gt24b2891_spec.html , using 4 identical SATA drives. I plan to use FBSD 6 (installing beta2, cvsup to head). I will use gmirror to RAID-1 the boot partition, and RAID-5 for the remainder. I was wondering which is the