Linux ATA RAID
Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net
Tue Mar 4 21:46:05 CST 2003
Repost since the list seems alive again:
Anyone got any experience with linux and hardware ATA RAID controller
cards? I need to put together a server with 500+ Gig of
storage. The Dell server purchased for this has on-board SCSI (Dell
1400-SC), but SCSI drives are still expensive vs. ATA for the same capacity.
I'm debating using SCSI drives vs. buying a hardware RAID and using
cheaper IDE drives. I have fast/wide PCI slots available, so I'd prefer
a fast-wide hardware IDE raid card, but performance is really secondary
to data integrity and low-cost (it's not a perfect world, after all!).
Any suggestions on something that might play well with linux, or should
I just buy a bunch of SCSI drives and setup SW RAID?
NOTE: I'll need to use RAID 5, since capacity and cost are the driving
issues, and the server isn't particularly fast (1.13 GHz P3), so I'm
thinking there might be a benifit to off-loading the RAID processing to
a hardware card, even if it's IDE.
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Charles Steinkuehler
charles at steinkuehler.net
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