[WBEL-users] Best SCSI Raid Card Controller for WBEL

[James Knowles]

>best SCSI Raid Controller Card available 
>
You mentioned you weren't using SCSI right now(?). If it doesn't *have* 
to be SCSI, I've had good results with 3ware's controllers 
(http://www.3ware.com/).

There's great support in the Linux kernel for them, and they're very fast.

>that squid is better on a number span of
>disk rather than on a raid disk.. 
>

You're probably thinking about striping (RAID-0) rather than spanning 
(linear mode). However, if you do mostly reads, RAID-1 acts much like 
RAID-0.

You might review the notes I created for a "RAID basics" introduction 
for our Linux user group a couple years ago:
http://www.ifm-services.com/people/jamesk/papers/linux/RAID-2002-02-OALUG.html

There are things you can pick apart in that, but it gets things mostly 
right.