Re: IDE ATA RAID under Linux
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 11:47:09PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> if you want ot do hot swapping, do lots of testing to confirm that
> your reading and writing can in fact survice a disk hot swap w/o hiccuping
> and burping
Does this mean that you think that existing hardware RAID hot swap
technology is a bit lacking?
> for mirroring ( on 2 disks )... use software raid1
Is this because of cost?
> raid will NOT protect you if the disk drive died due to
> bad power, bad memory, rogue cpu, etc..etc..
> - you learn the hard way ... ( we had bad memory, that kept
> "fixing" the disks with its bad memory content )
All too true ... I'll be backing up nightly, but want the RAID for the <
1 day situations.
> > The Arco IDE solution looks good too because to the OS an array will
> > appear as a normal IDE disk. Any thoughts on that?
>
> that holds true for 3ware too
Really? I didn't know that. That's good to know.
Thanks!
Jen
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