ATA Raid

Jason Dixon jason at dixongroup.net
Wed Feb 4 16:12:45 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 11:09, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:

> First off, my experience with software RAID (both 0 and 1) under Linux has 
> been excellent, although I've as yet suffered no failures. However, I 
> suggest forking over the cash for a 3Ware adapter, they're not that 
> expensive. I went all out and got a 12-drive card for $560, but they have 
> two- and four-drive cards that are darn cheap. And they are "real" hardware 
> RAID, with excellent performance and other RAID modes (5, 10, etc.) 
> available to boot. Plus, the kernel module is open-source and included 
> since God-knows-when in the mainstream kernels, so you need to do NOTHING 
> to make it work... it just works.
> 
> What's not to love?

What kind of monitoring do those support (syslog/snmp)?  What has your
experience been?  (I know you haven't had any failures, but surely you
have monitored _somthing_)  :)

Thanks,

-- 
Jason Dixon, RHCE
DixonGroup Consulting
http://www.dixongroup.net





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