>> Now y'all can tell me that the Promise ATA RAID cards suck and I >> shouldn't use them, and I should get a hardware RAID card, and so on >> (as I saw happened to the person who described this issue in October >> 2002; see >> http://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/linux-lvm/2002-October/012508.html >> and >> http://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/linux-lvm/2002-October/012516.html). >> And I'll happily agree with you, but for two small facts: >> - the hardware RAID cards cost more than twice what the drives cost, and >> they're 120GB IDE drives with large caches; let alone SCSI hardware >> RAID (which also increases the cost of the disks a lot too); Just thought I would point out that a 2-channel 3ware card is about the price of a single 80GB drive. (i.e. $130 US) I love the 3-ware cards and they are not cost prohibitive in my opinion. My only problem is I wish the failure/rebuild process was more automated than it currently is. Obviously, LVM and MD should still work together regardless. Greg -- Greg Freemyer _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
