I'm planning to set up a low cost raid 5 here, but some questions arise: Not sure whether to go software or hardware.
The machine is an AthlonXP 2000+/512MB, not exactly server tech, alright. Question is, does it suffice for softraid5? Can one estimate roughly what write performance to expect? By experience perhaps? If I stick to the softraid idea and want to add disks later to expand, how stable is raidreconf? More like "never heard of it failing on someone" or more like "good luck"? I'd favor hardware raid, but don't know what controller. Areca and 3ware are hot of course, but beyond budget (guess why an AthlonXP has to act up as a file server...) The ones I had a closer look at were: -Dawicontrol DC-4300 RAID, 4x SATA II, PCI-X, Sil 3124-2 -HighPoint RocketRAID 1640 SATA PCI -Promise FastTrak SX4000 PCI There's support for RH and SuSE for some of those, but I'd favor debian stable. Anyone got experience with those running on a 2.6 kernel? In general, can I add disks to an existing hardware raid5 later or is that reserved to the high end boards? Dex -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a- C+++(++++) UL+>++++ P+>++ L+++>++++ E-- W++ N o? K- w--(---) !O M+ V- PS++(+) PE(-) Y++ PGP t++(---)@ 5 X+(++) R+(++) tv--(+)@ b++(+++) DI+++ D G++ e* h>++ r%>* y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ http://www.stop1984.com http://www.againsttcpa.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
