RAID options under Fedora

[pctech at mybellybutton.com]

Personal Choice:  I would take hardware RAID over
software RAID any three days of the week.

Reasoning:  Hardware RAID, for the most part, is OS
Independant and OS Nonspecific.  You set up a RAID 5
array in hardware, the OS doesn't know, or care, that
it's not one big disk.  Another is that USUALLY a
driver upgrade in an OS is alot safer for the data
than an over-all update of a RAID system.  Meaning
it's safer to take the driver from version 1 to
version 2 than it is an entire storage schema.

I remember the DriveSpace/Stacker/SuperStor days as
well.....<shudder>  Nothing like taking an entire hard
drive's worth of data and making it one big assed
compressed file.

--- Brian Fahrlander <Brian at Fahrlander.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 00:20, Scott Burns wrote:
> 
> > Unless my terminology is wrong, it's only one
> RAID10 set, that is, 
> > multiple RAID1 sets making up a RAID0 stripe.
> RAID1+0 as I think some 
> > people call it.
> > 
> > However, you are right in that there is no reason
> you can't make it a 
> > RAID1+5 with 10 disks or even 15 disks to give the
> same sorts of 
> > protection or better than the 12 disk RAID10.  I
> take the rant along the 
> > lines of "if you're going to the trouble, go with
> the best you can, and 
> > RAID5 isn't it".  This is why I'm interested in
> why other's have RAID 
> > failures and what they plan(ned) to do next.
> 
>     It sounds like you guys REALLY know this stuff
> inside out; it might
> be the right place to ask a possibly heretical
> question:
> 
>     Hardware versus Software RAID
> 
>     I have a Windows-natured friend who thinks any
> software raid isn't
> worth the setup...but then, he remembers stacker,
> and stays with the OS
> that made it a legend. :)
> 
>     Meanwhile, I've used simple setups, mostly for
> longevity and in
> places I'd rather not make a road trip.  It's a
> small set, and by NO
> means should be construed as an alternative for
> serious computing, but
> for home/hobbyist work, it's solid.
> 
>     But you guys seem to have had the 'runtime' with
> these systems that
> I haven't. What's your opinion of software RAID (for
> non-competitive,
> home installations)?
> 
> -- 
>
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