On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Simo Varis wrote:
On the other hand SA-221 is worth of Compaq SCSI 18GB hotswap drive so
if there is no real advantages having HW-RAID money may become important
factor.
If someone has benchmarks for SA-221 I really would like to see them.
Thank you!
don't have benchmarks for you. But i'd advise going for the hardware
RAID. Software RAID is nice yes, but hardware RAID is a lot easier to
manage. With hardware RAID the hot-swap will work without
intervention - handy if you're not onsite and have to get a non-tech
to swap drives - and it's just a lot sturdier.
Also, I've experienced data corruption with linux software RAID under
heavy I/O. This has apparently been fixed, but still...
If you can afford it, go for the newer 3 or 4 thousand series raid
controller, they're a lot faster than the SMART 2 series. The linux
driver works very well, and there's even a GTK+ applet to view the
status of the array.
regards,
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Disclaimer: I am a Compaq employee, but my advice above is given as a
general linux user.
