Re: RAID suggestions?
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Luke S Crawford wrote:
> What we are looking for here is a "good enough" raid solution... something
> that costs significantly less than completely duplicating the $800 server
> or workstation in question, (meaning most "good" raid solutions you
Then DROP the idea of hw-raid. Get a damn good SATA/SCSI/SAS HBA, and use
software raid. BTW, damn good means no VIA, SiS, nVidia, or other
el-cheap-o half-broken SATA
There is no middle-ground in hardware raid. Either get the realy good
stuff, or don't use it for RAID.
You can probably get a "middle-level" hw-raid card, and use it as JBOD for
Linux software-raid. This is useful especially for SATA.
When doing software RAID, *DO* use mdadm array checks daily, or at the very
least a SMART long test daily. This is all the protection you have against
bit rot causing a non-recoverable mess in your array when you lose a disk:
you have to find bad sectors early, and refresh them.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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