On 3/16/06, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think I'd do raid5 in software but raid1 on scsi > is very usable and better than nothing on IDE as long as > the drives are on separate controllers.
I've run software RAID5 in on Linux for quite some time without any problems while suffering through multiple drive failures. Software RAID5 is faster than hardware RAID5 in many cases because of the limited memory/CPU power on some cards. Make sure you do your homework before choosing a hardware RAID card if you want to do RAID5. Linux supports software RAID6 now which gets you 2 parity disks so you can suffer through 2 disk failures in a set before losing data which is nice. If using IDE I'd make sure that you're not sharing any cables for the same RAID set. -Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
