> How many of you have played with disk arrays under Linux?

We use software RAID under Linux for all our production servers.  IMO, it is
more reliable than hardware RAID (removes a single point of failure), and with
modern processors, we observe absolutely no speed problems. We tend to use RAID
1, since disk drives are so cheap, which means that we don't really have a
performance hit on writes.

For the best reliability, one no more than one disk drive per controller.

If you don't mind the potential SPOF of hardware RAID, I can recommend
the 3ware IDE RAID controllers.

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Bruce Robertson, President/CEO                               +1-775-348-7299
Great Basin Internet Services, Inc.                     fax: +1-775-348-9412
http://www.greatbasin.net


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