Linux ATA RAID
Bill Cavalieri
bcavalieri at gekl.net
Wed Mar 5 06:14:33 CST 2003
Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> 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!).
I had the same quandry last week, I have a server dishing out remote x
connections, and had 30 clients conntected. With the ide drives the x
server came to a halt. I looked at scsi and ide raid, after lots of
reading, and looking at the budget, I settled with an ide raid
controller from 3ware.
Its a 4 channel, hardware raid controller (more than just doing the xor
on card, like promise etc..), used 4 drives in raid 10, so I got
performance and security and a cost of drive space. I know how 30
connected clients, and server is working just fine.
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