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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