On Wednesday 15 March 2006 13:00, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > For 6 client machines, a 3ware would be in the "nice to have" but not in > the "necessary" basket, IMHO. Is there a specific reason why a Linux > software raid 1 isn't good enough? Modern mobos have 4 SATA connectors. > If you wanted to show a Linux price advantage, this would really give > you points.
The main reason I wanted to go with a hardware RAID card was the support for hot swap. Although they are now interested in leasing a server so the original HP ML310 seems like a good option as it has hot swap SATA disks available and appears to be well supported by Linux. Taking the operating system and tape drive out of the equation will save them a substantial amount and IMHO give them a better solution. Now I only have to worry about the software side of things so that makes me happy. > RAID protects you against disk failures, but it's not a backup or > protection against the filesystem getting damaged because of faulty > software or a beserk box after a medium-distance lightning strike (yes > I've seen the latter on a Linux server with RAID 1). Agreed. Thanks to all for the help. hads -- The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
