well you could do it with soft RAID-5 too i think you save some money from the hardware RAID , you lose a bit performance -- soft RAID overhead the hard RAID has RAM and CPU( or smth of the kind ) -- no CPU or mem overhead but if you have a mothern CPU and a bit more RAM there is no problem redundancy - the same Goetz Bock wrote: >>[ ... ] There are several problems with stipes: >> >>- if you have problems with ANY disk, you have lost ALL of your data >> >If any disk of my VG dies I'm in trouble. With the help of the LVM guis >I might be able to "fake" the broken disk BUT for most people a broken >disk means loos of all data in the WHOLE VG. > >... that's why I use LVM over RAID5 (hardware). >
