Hi everyone, I am looking into some methods of keeping some of our labs shared data in a slightly safer disk setup. Currently there are two single 300Gb SATA drives in this machine. I am thinking about installing another set of mirrored 300Gb drives and using this mirrored setup to hold all of the shared data. This would give me two single drives for operations which require instant access (i have heard that a mirrored setup is not as fast as a single drive), and the mirrored array for redundancy. This machine is running Debian/Unstable, and has a Tyan Thunder K8WE motherboard. It looks like this board supports up to 4 SATA drives, along with RAID 0, 1, 0+1, and 'JBOD' .
Another machine in this lab only supports RAID level 0 for the SATA connectors. Is there a workable software RAID strategy for mirroring disks in linux or will I need to purchase a new hard disk controller? Would this type of setup be either possible or worthwhile for a simple safeguard against hardware failure? If not, are there other options which would be better suited for this task? Thanks in advance for any ideas! dylan -- Dylan Beaudette Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
