From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265268AbTL2TFA (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:05:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265301AbTL2TFA (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:05:00 -0500 Received: from 64-60-248-67.cust.telepacific.net ([64.60.248.67]:35361 "EHLO mx.rackable.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265268AbTL2TE5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:04:57 -0500 Message-ID: <3FF07AD8.2040601@rackable.com> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 11:04:56 -0800 From: Samuel Flory User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Ruscheinski CC: Tomas Szepe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Best Low-cost IDE RAID Solution For 2.6.x? (OT?) References: <20031228180424.GA16622@mail-infomine.ucr.edu> <3FEF8CFD.7060502@rackable.com> <20031229134150.GB30794@louise.pinerecords.com> <20031229185908.GB31215@mail-infomine.ucr.edu> In-Reply-To: <20031229185908.GB31215@mail-infomine.ucr.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Dec 2003 19:04:56.0692 (UTC) FILETIME=[A6201340:01C3CE3E] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Johannes Ruscheinski wrote: > Also sprach Tomas Szepe: > >>On Dec-28 2003, Sun, 18:10 -0800 >>Samuel Flory 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