Re: Hardware SATA Raid Controller
On (04/01/06 12:14), Marco Neves wrote:
> I'm assembling an internal server for my company, and we need both a lot of
> diskspace (for shared files, software backups, devel repository, etc) and
> some security on disk failures.
>
> I thought that a Raid5 with several smaller disks would solve our problem,
> but that brings me other. I would need a raid controller, that do it by
> hardware, not that sh*t that (at least some) Promise/FastTrack controllers do
> (or what I managed to make them do - raid by software), and that at the same
> work with debian as "out of the box" as possible.
>
> One solution would be to buy a HP server, with a raid controller, but that
> solution is a bit over my budget, so I the solution goes by buying the
> RaidController and assembly the server.
>
> My question is: What Raid HARDWARE controllers did you managed to configure
> in Debian without (too) much work? Which ones for RAID5 and SATA?
>
> Thank you very much for your help,
Software raid using mdadm works very well and avoids the need to find
modules for specific hardware.
I've put some notes together with some useful links on setting up
software raid:
http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk/selfhelp/FileServer_Install_manual.html
Regards
Clive
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