Re: [CentOS] Re: Hard disk recomendation for a software raid 5 array. Does Linux Software Raid support/interacts well with TLER enabled disks.

2007-07-30 Thread Alexander Georgiev
Not necessarily from different vendors as much as from different build lots, etc. The theory is ... items build from the same components at the same time and the same place should fail/EOL at about the same time (all things being equal). In practice, I have not seen that. If you are

Re: [CentOS] Re: Hard disk recomendation for a software raid 5 array. Does Linux Software Raid support/interacts well with TLER enabled disks.

2007-07-29 Thread Patrick - South Valley Internet
Peter Kjellstrom wrote: On Saturday 28 July 2007, Johnny Hughes wrote: Alexander Georgiev wrote: ... Ok, and should I mix disks from different vendors? I have read somewhere that this augments the reliability of the array, lowering the probability of 2 disks and more go down

Re: [CentOS] Re: Hard disk recomendation for a software raid 5 array. Does Linux Software Raid support/interacts well with TLER enabled disks.

2007-07-28 Thread Johnny Hughes
Alexander Georgiev wrote: I have used raid aware and non-raid aware disks for both hardware and software raid. You really want the raid edition drives, as they will send a fail up the channel much faster than a non-raid drive. The non-raid drives will retry over and over, and you stand a

[CentOS] Re: Hard disk recomendation for a software raid 5 array. Does Linux Software Raid support/interacts well with TLER enabled disks.

2007-07-27 Thread Scott Silva
Alexander Georgiev spake the following on 7/27/2007 5:32 AM: Hi people, I am building a cheap remote rsync backup server using a software raid 5 array of 4 500GB disks. What I have available on the market is: 1. HITACHI GST Deskstar T7K500 500GB 7200rpm 16MB cache Serial ATA II-300 2.