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On Dec 13, 2004, at 2:36 PM, Russ Dill wrote:
I didn't have the money, so I ended up getting a cheap HighPoint card and using Linux software RAID to replace my FastTrack. The FastTrack is definitely faster than softRAID in terms of throughput, but I'd rather have safer, slower data personally.
As far as just adding ide ports, would you recommend highpoint?
Not a single complaint with the thing thus far. It's been in service since late September, and I use the array CONSTANTLY, all day long. It holds my mail spool, GB's of media, MP3's, the lot in other words. The one thing I did find is that Linux softRAID responds very poorly to power loss. No data was lost; but after the second time I had to wait 2+ hours for the thing to resynchronize, I decided I'd better splurge and get a UPS. No problems since...
Of course, if you're going to use the HighPoint for RAID, you need to ignore the fact that its four channels can each handle a slave & primary. Promise won't let you put on slaves, neither will 3ware to my knowledge. I'm sure you've read/heard this elsewhere, but resist the urge to add more than four drives to the thing. If a master drive fails, it will almost certainly take the slave out too. That would turn your recoverable one drive RAID-5 failure into a fatal two drive failure, and woe to you.... 'Sides... These things are cheap enough, if you want 5+ drives, just buy an extra controller! There's stable Linux driver support (including multiple cards), so they're a pretty stable budget RAID solution.
Best regards, Zac Bedell
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