From: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Martin Eriksson <nitrax@giron.wox.org>
Subject: Re: HPT370 RAID-1 or Software RAID-1, what's "best"?
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:33:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C90ECDF.8EBC8FD4@ngforever.de> (raw)
Martin Eriksson wrote:
> What is "best" on Linux 2.4.X (with any appropriate patches) ?
>
> HPT370 RAID-1 or Software RAID-1 ?
>
> And if Software RAID-1 is best of these two, where is it most stable; on an
> i815 chipset, a VIA chipset (686B) or on a promise controller?
>
> I define "best" as:
> * most stable
> * least complex setup
> * least hassle when something goes wrong
Software RAID is just your disk configuration. But I'd recommend
hardware raid because the rebuild after one disk crash is dog slow with
software raid. This problem been discussed in all possible linux
magazines...
I prefer \x13SCSI RAID5
Thunder
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next reply other threads:[~2002-03-14 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-14 18:33 Thunder from the hill [this message]
2002-03-14 18:53 ` HPT370 RAID-1 or Software RAID-1, what's "best"? Alan Cox
2002-03-15 9:31 ` Luigi Genoni
2002-03-15 12:59 ` Martin Eriksson
2002-03-15 14:00 ` Ulrich Wiederhold
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2002-03-15 14:52 Thunder from the hill
2002-03-15 15:29 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-15 16:52 ` Luigi Genoni
2002-03-15 17:43 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-15 18:07 ` Luigi Genoni
2002-03-16 1:12 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-03-18 19:56 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-03-13 21:20 Martin Eriksson
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