[Chester LUG] SATA RAID - Re: Good Morning

[Richard Smedley]

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 09:12 +0000, Simon Willett wrote:
> Good morning everyone, 

Good evening Simon,

> Just wondered if anyone has any ideas for a cheap SATA RAID card which I can put into a linux server I am building? 

Cheap RAID cards have serious drawbacks (imho). Better to go 
software raid, from a known (documented) config on a non-RAID
/boot & / partition, so if you lose not just a disk, but
the RAID card, you can be back up again easily.

If others have thoughts on this, I'd be interested to hear.

 - Richard