Re: Q: RAID-1 w/2x160GB, ReiserFS, Debian 'woody', homebrew 2.4.25 kernel

["Katarina WONG" <kwong@alexandria.cc>]

On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 13:38:02 +0100, Mark Watts <m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com>  
wrote:

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>> I'm still a bit torn between buying a 3ware hardware RAID for €140.- and
>> just using 'md'. The box is an Athlon64 3GHz, so it'll have enough CPU
>> power to do the RAID in software, but with partitioning etc, I think the
>> hardware raid will be easier to handle because you can just ignore it.  
>> As
>> long as the 3ware BIOS will handle failing drives, read/write errors,  
>> etc
>> etc. properly.
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> 3ware (8506-4LP) is performing very badly here on Dual Opteron so I  
> wouldn't
> recomend it.
> Even a software raid-5 with the 3ware in jbod mode wasn't great.
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I recon that Jens was talking from a functional standpoint (hotspare,  
auto-rebuild, etc...). I too would be interested in hearing your  
experience on these. Also, can you expand on your "bad performance"  
statement ?

Thx

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