[WBEL-users] Raid

[William Warren]

interesting..while i had issues with maxtors last year i have a 
maxtor 120 gig in my current ssytem and a maxtor 80 gig in my 
file server..they both have run for over a year without issues..

hawk82 wrote:
> 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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