Les Mikesell wrote: > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > >> In our experience, 3ware controllers make the drive replacement process so >> much easier 90% of the time, that they more than pay for themselves in >> reduced labor costs when things go wrong. Software RAID is false economy in >> a corporate environment where labor costs 50-100s of $/hr. >> > > Just be sure to include the cost of a spare offsite controller to be > sure you will be able to access the disks if that's all you have left > after a disaster, and the time to learn the details of the > vendor-specific utilities. My goal is to be able to take my hard drive (operating system and pool) and install it in any other "spare" machine and have it operate. If I had a 3ware RAID controller in the original server, would I need a 3ware RAID controller in my spare machine? Or would I be able to hook it directly up to the motherboard's IDE (or SATA) controller and use it like that?
For my situation, I'd really like the hard drive to install into *any* machine (For instance, we could commandeer a user's PC, swap the hard drives, and perform the restore. Or we could send someone down the street to Walmart and buy whatever they have on the shelf to do the same thing). Having RAID on the backup server is important to me, but having it on the spare machine is not since this machine will only server the purpose of restoring the backup once. -Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
