Check out http://www.baarf.com While it's presented with a sense of humor, it's a very serious topic. Especially the PDF titled "Is RAID 5 Really a Bargain?" by Cary Milsap.
Enjoy! Rich -----Original Message----- From: JD Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 10:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [gentoo-server] RAID I'm going to be purchasing some hard drives for a raid5 array. I'll be running them out of my gentoo fileserver. I've used md in the past for raid0, but I know it's not a very robust solution as far as partition resizing and the like. What do you suggest for a good raid solution? I haven't decided on an interface, though I'm seriously considering a buying a SATA controller and going with that, but I could also use the raid controller that's built on to my motherboard. Thanks in advance for the help. I think I want to go with software raid simply because I will be able to transfer the raid to another machine when I decided to upgrade that box. -JD -- [email protected] mailing list -- [email protected] mailing list
