Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
On Mar 13, 2006, at 10:26 AM, Dexter Filmore wrote:
-Promise FastTrak SX4000 PCI
Whatever you do, stay away from Promise. It's only partial-hardware
raid; most of the work is actually done by the driver, not the card.
Pain in the ass to get working properly in Linux, too.
Seconded, avoid Promise. I would avoid them because of bad support. I
think some of their newest do support hardware RAID5, though.
First question: Why RAID?
RAID invokes a bunch of problems and management that should probably be
avoided unless you have a good reason. Is this for backups? Lack of
size on drives? eg. need greater than 300-400GB in one partition?
Reliability? How valuable is staying up?
Second question: Why RAID 5? Why not something like RAID 10?
RAID 5 hurts write performance pretty badly even with hardware cards.
And RAID 5 only protects against 1 drive failure until you rebuild the
array. Multiple drive failures are no longer uncommon.
-a
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