IDE RAID is *garbage*. If you're going to use hardware RAID, use SCSI, or don't bother.
SOftware RAID is even significantly better in both performance & reliability than IDE RAID. Ronnie Gauthier wrote: > Rather then a new MB it might be better to look into an IDE raid > controller card or raid by software. > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1 > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/ideraid.html > > > On Friday 24 May 2002 06:30, Keith Antoine wrote: > >>I have the local Chemist who is asking me to build 2 fileservers, >>not a big deal but! >> >>They have a tape backup system that has never been used (8gig) so >>its a biton the old side. In fact I do not think they would know >>how if the server went down or even if it is backing up. Or even if >>the data is usable. >> >>Due to the sort of proprietorty software the OS is win95, sheesh, >>and its being upgraded to win98. Now I am sure that we could use a >>raid motherboard and employ a backup system similar to raid mirror, >>as used on most email spoolers with hd mirroring. Anyone got >>experience here ?? > > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 1:40am up 35 days, 8:33, 3 users, load average: 0.16, 0.21, 0.14 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
