>> Two 3ware 12 port controllers will cost about EUR 1800,- here, I find >> it quite expensive.. > > About 1350 EUR here.
Ok, thats better. >> One big advantage of using linux md always was easy monitoring (just >> check changes on /proc/mdstat and send email alert), and the ease of >> remote management. Don't know how to do this with hw raid cards. > > Better. Way better. And more reliable. > >> When I have a throughput of say 20Mb/s total on my raid set, that >> would be fast enough for this system, as it is used by only one >> client. I think that should not be a problem with cheap sata ports >> combined with linux md. > > Well, depends on how important the data is. And 20 Mb/s is quite slow > for such a setup. AND you will have quite some CPU overhead for the > raid... And you need to lookout for splitting the disks across the PCI > busses. and so on, and so on. AND you WANT 64bit PCI-X or even better > pci-e. > > As i said. If you want cheap, and dont care about speed, reliability > etc, then go ahead with your planned setup. Otherwise, take a look at > > http://www.infortrend.com/main/2_product/a24u-g2421.asp > > or maybe the iscsi versions, that would have the benefit of not having > to buy a server at all. > > And thats EOD for me, who am i to stop people running towards problems :) No, not running towards problems, just curious about oher user stories. _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
