i planned buying 2 x 160gb Western Digital disks (on sale > now) and attach them to my 4501 trough a pci2usb card. on top of this, > apply some linux software raid 1.
Why not use SATA disks (theoretically ATA would work too, but SATA is just as cheap and cabling is easier), and a PCI SATA card? Faster and more common. Also, remember that on a RAID setup, you have to be IMMEDIATELY notified if a disk fails, and you have to start rebuilding onto a new disk. Once one disk fails, you are no longer protected. So make sure you set up the RAID management stuff correctly. I'm planning to do something very similar: Two 1TB SATA disks, and a 2-port SATA PCI card, on a 5501, with OpenBSD, and the new RAIDctl software (no longer RaidFrame). Boot will be from a small CF card. -- Ralph Becker-Szendy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 408-395-1435 735 Sunset Ridge Road, Los Gatos, CA 95033 _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
