[WBEL-users] Raid

[bishop]

Interesting too.

My SWRaid drives are Samsungs, my backup drives are maxtors.  They're so 
loud I usually idle them down but for the 0300 backup run.

Having said that, I'm all but abandoning SWRaid and looking to get, yes, 
a 3ware IDE HWRaid card.  In order to hose my SWRaid, I can:
  - set up 3x160 Raid-5  hd[c or f] hdf hdg
  - mkfs.ext3 /ded/md0
  - cp -a /home/* /mnt/new   (60Gb)

Guaranteed to hose it, mark it read-only, refuse unmounting and require 
an eventual reboot of the system.  Me, I'm rather thinking it's a load 
issue, for the box is busied with the cp.  Then again, I'm all but 
unwilling to accept the idea that a linux box can fall over so badly on 
a task I thought to be a bit more common.

(yayyy)

  - bish
the guy with 480Gb of
useless drives this week

William Warren wrote:

> 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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