[WBEL-users] Raid

[hawk82]

True. But I could never get a software raid partition to boot from a
RAID1 array. It was just too much work to get the whole software raid
stuff to work, that I just decided to buy a raid card and be done with
it.
Yeah, I probably should buy a 2nd raid card, but this is just my
personal server and I doubt that a) the card will die soon and b) I
will probably rebuild the entire server with new hardware in two years
or c) probably won't have this server.

Yes, maxtor drives are junk and I wish I had gotten Seagates at the
time. But I was stuck on a weekend for replacement drives and Staples
was the only store open that had drives.

lessons learned.

Josh


On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:14:42 +0200, Thomas Knoop <th.knoop@b-c-s.nl> 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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