RE: Recommendations for a "real RAID" 1 card on Centos box

[Therese Trudeau <mswotr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> I have two home workstation machines.
>> One is Centos, and one is Windows (the one I use Adobe on).  I'd prefer if possible
>> to have the same type of RAID cards on both machines, because easier to
>> manage and if I ever decide to sell or give away one machine, I can pull 
>> the raid card and use it as a backup.
> 
> I've always considered this a huge advantage of software raid1.  Even if 
>    everything on a machine melts except for one drive, you can recover 
> the data from it and you don't need a special controller to do it.  On 
> windows, you need the server versions to do mirroring, though.
> 
> If you can tolerate losing an hour's work or so, you could just schedule 
>   rsync commands to keep copies updated on another (perhaps external) 
> drive or to another machine on the network - or get a Mac with it's 
> 'time machine' backup.  This approach is actually safer than RAID alone, 
> since operator or software errors will wipe out your mirrored copy 
> instantly as well with RAID.

Unfortunately I can't use software RAID1 because of this:

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-March/096063.html
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