From: Samuel Flory <sflory@rackable.com>
To: Johannes Ruscheinski <ruschein@mail-infomine.ucr.edu>
Cc: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Best Low-cost IDE RAID Solution For 2.6.x? (OT?)
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 11:04:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FF07AD8.2040601@rackable.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031229185908.GB31215@mail-infomine.ucr.edu>
Johannes Ruscheinski wrote:
> Also sprach Tomas Szepe:
>
>>On Dec-28 2003, Sun, 18:10 -0800
>>Samuel Flory <sflory@rackable.com> 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@rackable.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-29 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-28 18:04 Best Low-cost IDE RAID Solution For 2.6.x? (OT?) Johannes Ruscheinski
2003-12-28 18:50 ` Joel Jaeggli
2003-12-28 21:35 ` Johannes Ruscheinski
2003-12-28 21:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-12-28 22:14 ` Johannes Ruscheinski
2003-12-28 23:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-12-29 1:18 ` Wakko Warner
2003-12-28 21:56 ` bert hubert
2003-12-28 23:36 ` Joel Jaeggli
2004-01-07 23:28 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-29 2:10 ` Samuel Flory
2003-12-29 13:41 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-12-29 18:59 ` Johannes Ruscheinski
2003-12-29 19:04 ` Samuel Flory [this message]
2003-12-29 19:06 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-12-30 0:03 ` Wakko Warner
2003-12-30 6:54 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-12-30 14:41 ` Wakko Warner
2003-12-30 20:58 ` Samuel Flory
2004-01-07 23:35 ` bill davidsen
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