> Hotswap is a fun one -- I haven't worked with it in over 6 months, but
> beware the stated "hotswapability" of a drive, cage, etc, compared to the
> real capability of the controller, drivers, and OS :) Newegg has some good
> cage deals, I like the one (I forget the brand though) where you can fit 5
> 3.5" drives vertically (er, sideways/upright) in a 3-drive-bay-tall volume.
That's what I've been looking at. Right now I do all of my offsite backups to a
usb drive. Slower than snot. I'd love to be able to use hot-swapable sata
drives.
> So are you planning this hotswap for a linux system, or, "cough, the other
> one"?
ROTFLAO. Hotswap in Windows? Wow. That is funny. I've see $1000 guaranteed
hot-swapable SCSI drives crash windows.... I can't image getting sata to work.
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Hotswap is a fun one -- I haven't worked with it in over 6 months, but
beware the stated "hotswapability" of a drive, cage, etc, compared to the
real capability of the controller, drivers, and OS :) Newegg has some good
cage deals, I like the one (I forget the brand though) where you can fit 5
3.5" drives vertically (er, sideways/upright) in a 3-drive-bay-tall volume.
So are you planning this hotswap for a linux system, or, "cough, the other
one"?
Ben
On 12/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do you perceive hardware RAID as better than Linux's software
> RAID? Software RAID will work if you move the disks to a different
> system. Software RAID uses negligible CPU and memory bandwidth.
> Software RAID gets regular bug fixes for free when you upgrade
> your distro.
The system in question is, um cough, not, cough, running, cough, linux,
cough, cough. Whew. Who said that?
Anyway.... On Linux I find software raid good for most simple setups and
it has gotten SO much better than it was in the past. I still occastionally
have problems with raid 1 arrays, especially when combined with LVM, that
contain /boot, but most of they time it's fine. I still try to stick with
true (processor and cache) hardware based raid controllers for raid 5 arrays
or where I need better monitoring, or where I need super fast performance no
matter what the system is doing.
When I get a few minutes I'm going to tackle finding a hotswap sata cage
and getting the whole thing to work... Anybody have an experience with
hotswap + sata? Comments?
Garl
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