I'd like to thank everyone who responded, and I didn't mean to start a software vs hardware war. But now that I did I'm sort of happy, because it's made me question if my direction is proper for my goals. My goal is reliability, not really performance. I'd like to build a new box with a mirror (raid 1), and migrate an existing box onto the new box with the mirror. Really the new box is an old box (450 Mhz PIII). I figured I could get a raid card and be done with it. But now I'm wondering if I shouldn't skip getting a raid card and do it with software raid. Being totally new to Raid, I really don't know the criteria I should be considering that would lead me down one path or the other. - I'm using a (fairly) old machine, I have to figure processor speed has to be an issue with software raid - When the box is being stressed most of the work is computational, the process I run puts the CPU% at 98% (according to top). - Most of the disk activity is read (the disks aren't very active in general) - I'm going to use WD 7200 rpm drives - going to do raid 1 - I'm going to want to do backups onto a tape drive Thanks Jay ----- Original Message ----- From: <me@heyjay.com> To: <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 9:47 AM Subject: Which raid card to buy for Sarge > Hi, > > I wanted to buy an IDE raid card, to run inside a stock debian Sarge box. I > was hoping someone could point me to a card that will play nice with Sarge > out of the box. Seems like all the cards support the usual distros (RH, > Suse...) but none seem to mention debian (and more specifically Sarge). I'd > like a card that can run raid 1 and 5. > > If it doesn't run right out of the box, how about one that isn't too hard to > get working (I know "too hard" is subjective) > > Any suggestions would be very appreciated > > Thanks > Jay > > - > 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
