On 27 Jun 2002 at 15:56, Joon Guillen wrote: > We are planning to buy a couple of servers to be used primarily as www + > database servers [ie. a content management system]. We now need a > (hardware) RAID system for these. Unfortunately, SCSI RAID systems are > a bit steep on price, and I was thinking of using IDE RAID instead (we > need only 2 disks per server anyway). I don't know much about RAID yet, > so my question is, will the IDE RAID system work well with Linux? Does > the kernel support it? Or, is RAID completely transparent from Linux?
I've been using a 3ware Escalade <http://www.3ware.com/> and these have open source drivers that are part of the Linux kernel, as well as the web-based utility that also runs on Linux (albeit closed source). We have a four-disk RAID5 solution that's been working really well. It's not the fastest of choices (I should have gone with RAID10 in hindsight) but it works. With hardware RAID the kernel only sees one drive per array. What's important is that the controller itself is supported. > Additionaly, would you recommend IDE RAID at all, provided our current > server's purposed function, or would it really be necessary to get SCSI > instead? Our box has been doing pretty well, and from what I've heard Ian Sison is very happy with his 3ware Escalade units, too. I'd wager hardware IDE RAID is "good enough", at the least. And with a price that's sweet. :) --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : <http://jijo.free.net.ph/> Network Administrator : The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key ID : 0x93B746BE _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
