Re: Best Low-cost IDE RAID Solution For 2.6.x? (OT?)

[Samuel Flory]

Johannes Ruscheinski wrote:
> Also sprach Tomas Szepe:
>
> > On Dec-28 2003, Sun, 18:10 -0800
> > Samuel Flory <sflory@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > PS- Why not at least run software raid 5?  It takes far less cpu than 
> > > you'd think, and can save your ass.
> >
> > Absolutely.  With eight low-cost IDE disks, you'd be nuts to go raid0
> > or linear.
>
>
> I'll probably go with raid5 and the Promise tx4000 card recommended by Joel.
> It looks like I'll have the funding to buy another box and another 1 TiB of
> disk space.  Thanks for all the advice!!

  A word of advice when using software raid.  Be sure to run badblocks 
on all the disks before creating your array.  Software raid isn't as 
nice about bad sectors as most hardware raid controllers.  On the other 
hand the md driver kicks the ass of nearly every raid controller I've tried.

--
There is no such thing as obsolete hardware.
Merely hardware that other people don't want.
(The Second Rule of Hardware Acquisition)
Sam Flory  <sflory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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