hi ya
on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:08:23PM -0500, Debian User (debian-user@zerocrossings.com) wrote:
I am interested in implementing hardware RAID on a new machine I
am putting together. I have read a post _Hardware RAID setup_ and
am glad that it can be done w/ modules in Debian. It looks liek 3ware
is the way to go. I only _need_ two disks (I think). Does anyone
have a suggestion as to card/driver selection?
3ware give you their drivers for using with their cards ...
7500-2 is the cheapest 3ware cards
7500-4 is for 4 drives
if you only need 2 disks... for the same $$$, you can buy 3-4 40-60GB disk
drives instead and have 3-4 copies of the same thing instead of
one extra copy with to "hardware raid" ( raid1 mirroring presumably )
with only 2 disks
it ain't worth it with 2 disks...
w/ hw raid.. if you erase important-file.txt on your disk, its gone ..
but, if you have 2-4 independent disks with the same $$$ ... you
have as many copies as you want going back years ...
by doing this, you mean using software raid? i tried this once and was not
sucessful setting up software raid at all. if i can recall, i think i installed
debian on hda first. then i tried to configure mda ... thinking this would
mirror hda on hdc. i think it just wiped hda and did nothing to hdc. maybe
i did something wrong?