> The problem is, of course, that your raid controller might not support
> it. And the differences aren't that great (as you can see), so it's not
> really worth spending money on (however, if the RAID controllers are
> much more expensive than plain controllers, and you have a decent CPU,
> go fo
Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote:
If I am right in my understanding of raid levels 4 - 80GB drives in such
a configuration will give me 160GB of storage space, with the other
160GB of the drives being used in a mirrored capacity right?
I think that's right. If you have the option money-wise and th
Liam,
Stay AWAY from Promise RAID controllers. Sure they are the cheapest,
but they are hit and miss with Linux.
3Ware is the way to go for Linux compatibility out of the box, embedded
Linux kernel support for all distro's of Linux. Can't say that about
Promise.
If you haven't already bought
> I would like to get a Promise IDE raid controller, either the 4 or 6
> channel version, haven't decided yet. I was going to put on it 4 - 80
> GB EIDE hard drives with 7200 rpm and 8MB cache each. I would use these
> in a raid 0+1 or raid 1+0 configuration. It is my understanding that
> th
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Am Freitag, 26. November 2004 15:53 schrieb Liam Marshall:
> I would like to get a Promise IDE raid controller, either the 4 or 6
> channel version, haven't decided yet. I was going to put on it 4 - 80
> GB EIDE hard drives with 7200 rpm and 8MB cache
we are skating on the edge of being too low on hard drive space. With
careful management of the ltsp environment I think we could make do but
there are several reasons I don't want to.
1. First, in most cases I am a believer in more is better, hardware
wise. What we have for hard drive spac
