On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 09:27 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > <snip> > Personally I have no issues with IDE or > SCSI software RAID1 on Asterisk, but then again I don't use the > problematic > chipsets. > </snip> > > I searched and found that Promise controllers were causing issues for > some. Any others you know of off the top of your head?
With the huge number of vairables, it is a good idea to not introduce more problems than neccessary. I assume you are thinking of RAID 1 for the redundancy since you are likely to lose the entire IDE channel and possibly the chipset if you have a drive failure. Consider what your recovery plan is with a software raid. If you lose your primary drive, you won't be able to boot from the array. So now you are on some other boot media and needing to repair the array. Basically, if you want to bring yourself closer to enterprise level by using RAID, why don't you take the extra step and make sure you can hot swap failed components and not have to take your system down. After a friend of mine lost his array of SCSI drives due to the one drive failing to spin back up after replacing the other, I don't feel comfortable with non hotswap in drive arrays important enough for RAID. Anyways, like many things, there isn't a boolean yes or no answer to some choices. It just is a matter of how comfortable you are with certain levels of performance/risk. -- Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
