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| Newer page: | version 7 | Last edited on Monday, March 22, 2004 9:09:13 pm | by StuartYeates | Revert |
| Older page: | version 6 | Last edited on Monday, March 22, 2004 11:04:00 am | by DanielLawson | Revert |
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the configuration of software RAID.
GerwinVanDeSteeg's opinion:
-Finding the correct RAID card for your distribution can also be tricky.
+Finding the correct [
RAID]
card for your distribution can also be tricky.
Software RAID is not too difficult to manage depending on your choice of
distribution. Some of the more "user friendly" distros (Read RedHat,
-Fedora) come with an install process capable of installing the machine
+[
Fedora]
) come with an install process capable of installing the machine
on a SoftwareRaid ensuring there is no fuss whatsoever.
I've setup many systems with SoftwareRaid and HardwareRaid and found that
if you've got the wrong card or driver things don't always work the way
you want.
DanielLawson's opinion:
-I've got servers running software and hardware IDE RAID. I've not spent a lot of time spent a lot of time benchmarking them, but I've heard a number of reports suggesting that most hardware IDE RAID 0 or RAID 1 implementations are basically crap. To get a decent RAID 0 or RAID 1 card still cost a fair bit last time I looked, and doesn't neccesarily offer many benefits (specially if they have binary drivers, or only have drivers for some kernels, etc). On the other side of things, I also have a server with a 4 port 3Ware SATA RAID0/1/5 card in it, running a 360 GB RAID5 array. It was very painless to set up, and performance is good - as you'd expect. I've not tested software RAID 5 to compare however. If you can afford to drop a thousand dollars on a raid controller, then you get what you pay for :)
+I've got servers running software and hardware IDE RAID. I've not spent a lot of time spent a lot of time benchmarking them, but I've heard a number of reports suggesting that most hardware [
IDE]
RAID 0 or RAID 1 implementations are basically crap. To get a decent RAID 0 or RAID 1 card still cost a fair bit last time I looked, and doesn't neccesarily offer many benefits (specially if they have binary drivers, or only have drivers for some kernels, etc). On the other side of things, I also have a server with a 4 port 3Ware SATA RAID0/1/5 card in it, running a 360 GB RAID5 array. It was very painless to set up, and performance is good - as you'd expect. I've not tested software RAID 5 to compare however. If you can afford to drop a thousand dollars on a raid controller, then you get what you pay for :)
+
+See also: [Software], [Hardware]
