Gordon Henderson said: > >> I am not RAID expert but I really don't see the benefits of including >> the OS in the RAID array as if the primary HD failed, the system won't >> be >> able to boot anyway. Am I right ? > > Not neccessarily. Modern motherboards will boot of either on-board > controller, so if the primary failed, then the master drive on the 2nd > controller ought to be able to boot. It's worth checking your motherboard > though. All the systems I've built in the past 2-3 years like this have > had this ability. You may need to physically unplug the failed drive > though (and reboot) if it fails in a way that make it look like it's still > active. This is where having hardware RAID is a definate advantage over software RAID as you won't have to intervene if one of your drives has half-way failed and the primary is detected but you can't actually read from it. Now that you can pick up 3ware 6xxx cards for $60-70, you can't really complain about the price, either: http://www.weirdstuff.com/commerce/catalog/spcategory.jsp?category_id=1267&czuid=1058030005578 -Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
