From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Anybody know about nforce4 SATA II hot swapping + linux raid?
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:24:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43508485.5040800@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200510071111.46788.andrew@walrond.org>
Andrew Walrond wrote:
>I need to deploy some very resilient servers with hot swapable drives.
>
>I always used dac960 based hardware raid for hot swapping in the past, but
>sata drives are so cheap compared to scsi that I'm considering the Tyan GT24
>server with 4 hot swappable SATA II drives (nforce4 pro controller)
>
> http://www.tyan.com/products/html/gt24b2891.html
>
>Before I place an order, I need to know whether sata II hot swapping is up to
>scratch in the linux kernel, and whether it works nicely with linux software
>raid (which I already use/am familiar with).
>
>Any knowledge greatfully accepted :)
>
As others have noted, SATA is young and should not be used for hot-swap,
at least in a production manner. I suggest the IBM ServeRAID controller
as one solution for SCSI. I have a bunch of servers in various places
around the country, and these have been good to me, work pretty well
with typical failures, and IBM supports them.
I've deployed about 35 of these and am still happy, so you have a data
point. Most of my servers have 3-6TB.
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-15 4:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-07 10:11 Anybody know about nforce4 SATA II hot swapping + linux raid? Andrew Walrond
2005-10-08 7:41 ` Tejun Heo
2005-10-08 14:26 ` Molle Bestefich
2005-10-08 14:55 ` Andrew Walrond
2005-10-08 15:01 ` Lukasz Kosewski
2005-10-08 15:52 ` Andrew Walrond
2005-10-08 15:23 ` Gordon Henderson
2005-10-08 16:03 ` Andrew Walrond
2005-10-08 16:08 ` John Stoffel
2005-10-08 16:39 ` Andrew Walrond
2005-10-15 4:24 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2005-10-15 5:06 ` Lajber Zoltan
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2005-10-08 19:16 Allen Martin
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