Also, with the right hardware, failed drives can be swapped without shutting
the server down. AFAIK it can only be done with SCSI drives, but with SATA
hardware being supported by the scsi subsystem, it'll probably work with
SATA drives too.
SATA supports hot swapping of disks if you have
On 01/06/2010 02:32 PM, Edward S.P. Leong wrote:
Dear All,
Happy New Year !
As the title...
Would you mind to help ( suggestion ) ?
Thanks !
Edward.
-ENOTENOUGHINFO
What sort of RAID card? How much do you want to spend? What capacities
are you looking for? What features do you
I've had great success with am AMCC 3ware 9690SA on Fedora 10 and 11.
I haven't tried 12 yet. I have a four-disk RAID 5.
http://www.3ware.com/
The 9690 can use either SATA or SAS drives depending on the cabling
you get. It is an 8-lane PCI express card.
You definitely would want to invest in
To be completely fair and honest, I should cop to the fact that I used
to be an AMCC 3ware employee:
I'm not a 3ware employee and I'd second that recommendation *if* you want
to go for something with battery backup and some oompf. If you just want
low end raid (ie 'I'm sick of disks dying' raid
Alan Cox writes:
A modern PC is rather good at doing RAID in software and PCI Express
fixes the main bottleneck of RAID1 in software. Its also generally true
that a desktop PC has lots and lots of spare CPU cycles to use for RAID
work.
Also, with the right hardware, failed drives can be
2010/1/7 Edward S.P. Leong edward...@ita.org.mo:
Dear All,
Happy New Year !
As the title...
Would you mind to help ( suggestion ) ?
I use an Areca ARC1220 PCI Express hardware RAID card (inc Intel
IOP333 RAID6 engine) with great success. Their driver is included in
mainstream kernel.
