Jeff -- One item regarding Linux vs Promise Drivers for the FastTrak ATA RAID cards (both motherboard embedded and separate PCI cards) that has not yet been brought up (unless I missed it in my zeal to avoid these damned Windoze Worm emails) is: Promise has a SuperSwap drive bay product that allows for real-time hot-swapping of drive elements with hot-rebuild capability. The Promise Drivers support this additional hardware, whereas the Linux Drivers do not (so far as I can tell). Now if you're using RAID for speed/performance only, then the Linux drivers seem to be best, as they are much more flexible and efficient than the Promise provided one(s) -- but whereas I wanted high availability and reliability from my 200+ GB RAID-1 array, I chose to use the Promise drivers with the SuperSwap 1000 removable drive trays. I have survived two separate drive failures in the past 4 months and my system uptime is currently 245 days and counting. As always, your mileage may vary... But I do hope you (or someone) finds this information useful... Best to you all! Dan McAllister IT4SOHO, LLC -----Original Message----- From: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Jeff Gray Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 2:44 PM To: xwred1@modestolan.com Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: which is better: promise fasttrak-lite 100 or linux softwareraid? >From: Matt Thrailkill <xwred1@modestolan.com> >Linux software raid could be faster in some cases. The raid drivers for >most of those card's in Linux (and even Windows) are less than ideal, in >which case Linux software raid would be more reliable. And its >certainly more flexible. Thank you for your reply Matt. Kevin Corry from the EVMS mailing list cleared that up for me as well - I will definetly choose Linux software RAID and mdadm over the Promise solution. _________________________________________________________________ Say ?good-bye? to spam, viruses and pop-ups with MSN Premium -- free trial offer! http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200359ave/direct/01/ - 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 - 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
