RE: Suggestions for running RAID5 (3 disks): buy 2 extra controllers??

1999-07-27 Thread Roeland M.J. Meyer
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Livingston > Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 7:15 PM > To: Marc Mutz; Kiyan Azarbar > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Suggestions for running RAID5 (3 disks): buy 2 extra > cont

RE: Suggestions for running RAID5 (3 disks): buy 2 extra controllers??

1999-07-27 Thread Tom Livingston
Marc Mutz wrote: > You should have bought SCSI disks. They may would have been cheaper, > too, because you need only one controller for three disks. (Sorry -could > not resist :-) I know it's fun for all the server purists to knock eide, but it does have some advantages: A mythical ~90GB array:

Re: Suggestions for running RAID5 (3 disks): buy 2 extra controllers??

1999-07-27 Thread Marc Mutz
Kiyan Azarbar wrote: > > I would like to run RAID5 (3 disks in the array, maybe some room in the future > for one spare disk). Right now I've got my linux root partition (well, pretty > much everything is under /, it's meant to be a server) on /dev/hda (4 gig > Quantum CR). I have 3 12 gig Quantu