[Chester LUG] SATA RAID - Re: Good Morning

[Simon Willett]

Hi Richard, 
It's interesting what you say. 
Of course the raid card itself is a single point of failure. 

I have software raid already in the box this new server will be replacing. I
presumed that software raid would be slower?!?  

I was thinking about the adaptec 2420SA before your email. 


Thanks
Simon



-----Original Message-----
From: chester-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:chester-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Richard Smedley
Sent: 09 December 2007 23:29
To: chester at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [Chester LUG] SATA RAID - Re: Good Morning


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





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