Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Dec 2003 13:35:35 -0800 | Subject | Re: Best Low-cost IDE RAID Solution For 2.6.x? (OT?) | From | (Johannes Ruscheinski) |
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Also sprach Joel Jaeggli: > well if you currently have 1tb in 8 non-redundant drives then you using > 160GB disks... no? > > the biggest p-ata disks right now are ~320GB so you can do a ~1TB software > raid 5 stripe on a single 4 port ata controller such as a promise tx4000 > using regular software raid rather than the promise raid. that would end > up being fairly inexpensive and buy you more protection.
Fisrt of all: thanks for the advice Joel! Two questions: why not use the hardware raid capability of the Promise tx4000 and if we'd use software raid instead, what would be the CPU overhead?
> > linux software raid hsa been as releiable as anything else we've used over > the years, the lack of reliabilitiy in your situation will come entirely
Good to hear.
> from failing disks, lose one and your filesystem is toast.
I was aware of that, thanks!
> > joelja > > On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Johannes Ruscheinski wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > We're looking for a low-cost high-reliability IDE RAID solution that works well > > with the 2.6.x series of kernels. We have about 1 TB (8 disks) that we'd > > like to access in a non-redundant raid mode. Yes, I know, that lack of > > redundancy and high reliability are contradictory. Let's just say that > > currently we lack the funding to do anything else but we may be able to obtain > > more funding for our disk storage needs in the near future. > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu > GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2 >
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