[WBEL-users] Raid

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

I'd buy second spare raid controller off of ebay. Put it on the shelf,
and leave it there. Its cheap insurance.   I've been doing that for
years, and its saved my butt a couple of times...

My experience with software raid is that it doesn't perform well under a
heavy disk load. Light loads are ok, but hardware raid is always better.

I also wouldn't use Maxtor ide drives. I've had 4 of 5 that I purchased
new fail in the last year. Needless to say, you get what you pay for...


On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 05:14, Thomas Knoop wrote:
> Hi hawk82,
> 
> 
> > I'm currently using an older 3ware 6200 with two maxtor ide drives.
> 
> > I tried the software raid in linux, but it is just too much work. This
> > solution is a lot easier. Made even easier since I put each drive in a
> > removable drive bay. If one dies, power down the system, pop out the
> > old drive, and put a new one, reboot and the array rebuilds.
> 
> Okay, but what happens if your 3ware card dies in, let's say 2 years, how 
> fast would you have your system up and running?
> 
> Thats why you should consider Software Raid, because even if everything 
> dies, except for 1 disk, you would be able to have a system running, on that 
> disk, very fast. 
> 
> 
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