Kenneth Burgener wrote:
Blake Barnett wrote:
In my experience (albeit focused purely on server hardware) there are so
many downsides to doing IDE RAID that it doesn't even make sense to use
it. I suppose if you're trying to find the absolute cheapest solution
then it's viable, but then you'd be forced to ask yourself; "How much do
I value this data?" and "Why not just use software RAID and/or
rsync-type backups?".
What are these "many downsides" to IDE RAID that you refer to? (other
than it doesn't compare performance wise to hardware RAID) For a cheap
home file server, it seams to make sense...
I've had reliability issues with all of the cards I've tried, poor
drivers (this was a while ago though), and the rarity of battery-backed
IDE cards (PATA not SATA). What's the point of a RAID that can be
corrupted by a single power outage?
Unless you have a need for more than four PATA IDE drives in a RAID set,
and if performance is not a primary concern anyway, I'd always just
use software RAID.
-Blake
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