On Thu, 10 May 2007, Howard Lowndes wrote: > Amos Shapira wrote: > > > I was thinking of using Linux software RAID (Debian Etch) but was very > > sternly warned not to do that on a production system. > > I don't know why not. I have had far more problems with SATA, esp mobo > integrated, when running in RAID mode than when running in IDE mode and > using software RAID. >
Software RAID 5 uses a lot of CPU cycles that are best left to a hardware device. But software RAID 1 or 1+0 on a modern Linux system of any type should be fine in my opinion. If you do go with HW RAID, keep in mind you also want a card that interfaces well with Linux not just for the drive contorller itself, but also the management interface for detecting failed drives, rebuilding arrays, etc. This is of course much easier with Linux software raid. --Jeremy -- /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
