Re: Ok to go ahead with this setup?

2006-06-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mike Dresser wrote: On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Molle Bestefich wrote: Christian Pernegger wrote: Anything specific wrong with the Maxtors? I'd watch out regarding the Western Digital disks, apparently they have a bad habit of turning themselves off when used in RAID mode, for some

Re: Ok to go ahead with this setup?

2006-06-28 Thread Brad Campbell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Dresser wrote: On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Molle Bestefich wrote: Christian Pernegger wrote: Anything specific wrong with the Maxtors? I'd watch out regarding the Western Digital disks, apparently they have a bad habit of turning themselves off when used in RAID mode,

Re: Ok to go ahead with this setup?

2006-06-28 Thread Christian Pernegger
The MaxLine III's (7V300F0) with VA111630/670 firmware currently timeout on a weekly or less basis.. I have just one 7V300F0, so no idea how it behaves is a RAID. It's been fine apart from the fact that my VIA southbridge SATA controllers doesn't even detect it ... :( (Anyone else notice

Re: Ok to go ahead with this setup?

2006-06-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Christian Pernegger wrote: The MaxLine III's (7V300F0) with VA111630/670 firmware currently timeout on a weekly or less basis.. I have just one 7V300F0, so no idea how it behaves is a RAID. It's been fine apart from the fact that my VIA southbridge SATA controllers doesn't even detect

Re: Ok to go ahead with this setup?

2006-06-28 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Dresser wrote: On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Molle Bestefich wrote: Christian Pernegger wrote: Anything specific wrong with the Maxtors? I'd watch out regarding the Western Digital disks, apparently they have a bad habit of turning themselves

Re: Ok to go ahead with this setup?

2006-06-28 Thread Christian Pernegger
Here's a tentative setup: Intel SE7230NH1-E mainboard Pentium D 930 2x1GB Crucial 533 DDR2 ECC Intel SC5295-E enclosure The above components have finally arrived ... and I was shocked to see that the case's drive bays do not have their own fan, nor can I think of anywhere to put one.

Re: Ok to go ahead with this setup?

2006-06-28 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Justin Piszcz wrote: How do you have the 15 drives attached? Did you buy a SATA raid card? Do you have multiple (cheap JBOD SATA cards)? If so, which did you use? I cannot seem to find any PCI-e cards with = 4-8 slots that support JBOD under $700-$900. We're using a

Re: Ok to go ahead with this setup?

2006-06-27 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Molle Bestefich wrote: Christian Pernegger wrote: Anything specific wrong with the Maxtors? I'd watch out regarding the Western Digital disks, apparently they have a bad habit of turning themselves off when used in RAID mode, for some reason:

Re: Ok to go ahead with this setup?

2006-06-22 Thread Molle Bestefich
Christian Pernegger wrote: Intel SE7230NH1-E mainboard Pentium D 930 HPA recently said that x86_64 CPUs have better RAID5 performance. Promise Ultra133 TX2 (2ch PATA) - 2x Maxtor 6B300R0 (300GB, DiamondMax 10) in RAID1 Onboard Intel ICH7R (4ch SATA) - 4x Western Digital WD5000YS

Re: Ok to go ahead with this setup?

2006-06-22 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Molle Bestefich wrote: Christian Pernegger wrote: Intel SE7230NH1-E mainboard Pentium D 930 HPA recently said that x86_64 CPUs have better RAID5 performance. Actually, anything with SSE2 should be OK. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the

Re: Ok to go ahead with this setup?

2006-06-22 Thread Christian Pernegger
Pentium D 930 HPA recently said that x86_64 CPUs have better RAID5 performance. Good to know. I did intend to use Debian-amd64 anyway. Is it a NAS kind of device? Yes, mostly. It also runs a caching NNTP proxy and drives our networked audio players :) Personal file server describes it

Re: Ok to go ahead with this setup?

2006-06-22 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Molle Bestefich wrote: Christian Pernegger wrote: Anything specific wrong with the Maxtors? No. I've used Maxtor for a long time and I'm generally happy with them. They break now and then, but their online warranty system is great. I've also been treated kindly by their help desk - talked

Re: Ok to go ahead with this setup?

2006-06-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
Christian Pernegger wrote: Hi list! Having experienced firsthand the pain that hardware RAID controllers can be -- my 3ware 7500-8 died and it took me a week to find even a 7508-8 -- I would like to switch to kernel software RAID. Here's a tentative setup: Intel SE7230NH1-E mainboard Pentium

Re: Ok to go ahead with this setup?

2006-06-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
Molle Bestefich wrote: Christian Pernegger wrote: Anything specific wrong with the Maxtors? No. I've used Maxtor for a long time and I'm generally happy with them. They break now and then, but their online warranty system is great. I've also been treated kindly by their help desk -