I've had good luck with Linux software raid arrays. It's so
durn easy, I don't see any reason to bother with the low end
RAID cards. (The more expensive cards can offer advantages
not otherwise available.)
Agreed. I have three systems right now that are fully RAIDed, one a
high use server,
My only regret is that I'll no longer be using the RAID card to its full
extent. However, I've also read some interesting opinions that talk about
how a low-end RAID card (such as the tx4) can be a bottleneck on higher-end
systems. Mine's a dual-mp 1.4Ghz (1600+) configuration. Such opinions
Note that the TX4 RAID card, is essentially a *software* raid card
(i.e. glorified IDE controller). There is very few true IDE raid card
with support under linux. 3ware and ARCO DupliDisk are the only ones.
http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html
-Ross
Do you mean by that that the
It turns out that for some reason mkreiserfs only allocated
60G on my 120G
Raid array. I rebooted on my 1.4 LiveCD and attempted to
debug_reiserfs my
array, but wound up getting a screen full of I/O errors on one
of my drives
(the first one of the array). I suspect it's not actually the
Note that the TX4 RAID card, is essentially a *software* raid card
(i.e. glorified IDE controller). There is very few true IDE raid card
with support under linux. 3ware and ARCO DupliDisk are the only ones.
http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html
-Ross
Do you mean by that that the pdcraid
Agreed. I have three systems right now that are fully RAIDed, one a
high use server, a personal server, and my personal workstation, all of
which use software raid, one of which uses a PCI-IDE card (promise
tx-2000 or something) to add the extra channels that are needed.
I use one of Promise's
