There is kind of hot-swap support and auto-rebuild in the
raidtools-0.90; choice between external drives and internal drives for
raid is rather complicated but there is no difference in speed if you
are using the internal or external connector of a raid-controller
(correct me if I am wrong).
But using one disk for raid makes no sense - building raid0 just on one
disk with several partitions will decrease speed; building raid1/raid5
on one disk will kill redundancy as well as speed.
So I recommend to use the "four-disk-solution".
Greetings, Dietmar
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> I have been in the market for a server. I have explored many differnt things
> but now I'm down to just what sotorage system to use. Mainly now I am deciding
> wheather to go with one big 36gb ultra2 scsi dirve, Or a 4 disk scsi 5 aray
> with four 7200 rpm 9.1gb drives. I have put to gether some quotes $$ wise but
> there all very close. So my big question is sould I go with internal
> pci-to-scsi raid controlers and if yes which one or an external scsi-to-scsi
> raid solution and if yes witch one. The main reason that im not looking a
> software RAID is that it seems difacult to set up and after listing to this
> list for a few months I still dont know if there is hot-swap suport and
> autorebild.
> Any Help Is much appreciated.
> Byron Albert
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