Re: RAID suggestions?
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On 03/19/08 10:52, Michael S. Peek wrote:
> Damon L. Chesser wrote:
>> Having done support for a tier1 OEM, I found
>> many of our customers (running Linux) ignored the raid controllers and
>> used them as disk controllers and then used software raid.
>
> This would be fine, I don't really care if it's a hardware or software
> RAID, although it seems like a waste of money to buy a hardware RAID
> card just to use as a dense SATA controller. Is there such a thing as a
> SATA controller just for lots of drives? One that supports, say, 8 or
> more drives and is supported by the linux kernel out of the box? All I
> really want is to be able to have big-time data density in a single
> machine.
>
> ...That is, unless someone knows a good and cheap way to have big-time
> data density outside the machine. The other option I'm looking at is a
> NAS, but it seems to me that the cheaper solution is to build a storage
> server myself instead.
>
> My biggest hurdle here is that I have absolutely no experience with SANs
> or NASs, and I have a short period of time to get my proposal in, so I
> was planning on going with what I know will work: a big, fat case from
> rackmountpro.com with a hardware RAID card and 24 friggin' drives.
I don't think there are any non-RAID high-density PCIe controllers.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
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