raid controller recommendation

[Robert L Cochran]

Jesse, what advantage does having a 16 drive RAID array give you? I'm in 
no way a RAID expert and don't understand the business need for a 16 
drive array.

Thanks!

Bob


Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thursday 11 December 2003 17:35, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> 
>>'more' is not the word ;-), it's _much more_
>>
>>
>>>raid isn't cheap.  Promise and BCM aren't true hardware raid last
>>>time I checked, you're still using your own CPU to calculate raid
>>>operations.  Especially harmfull when doing raid 5.
>>
>>Yes, they aren't RAID boards. But Linux_soft_raid is cheaper, more
>>secure and flexible and not slower.
>>I don't see any case where is the best a low end RAID board than
>>Linux_soft_raid.
> 
> 
> For 2 drive stuff, sure maybe.  But we deal with 4/8/12/16 drive 
> chassis, all on 3ware stuff.  I don't think software raid can handle 
> those situations.  Especially not with remote web configurations, 
> alerts (included, not build your own), etc...
> 
> Software raid has it's place, and it's cheap, but the Original Poster 
> asked for a hardware solution.  The only solution I would consider is a 
> 3ware solution.
> 

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