-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > I'm still a bit torn between buying a 3ware hardware RAID for €140.- and > just using 'md'. The box is an Athlon64 3GHz, so it'll have enough CPU > power to do the RAID in software, but with partitioning etc, I think the > hardware raid will be easier to handle because you can just ignore it. As > long as the 3ware BIOS will handle failing drives, read/write errors, etc > etc. properly. 3ware (8506-4LP) is performing very badly here on Dual Opteron so I wouldn't recomend it. Even a software raid-5 with the 3ware in jbod mode wasn't great. Mark. - -- Mark Watts Senior Systems Engineer QinetiQ Trusted Information Management Trusted Solutions and Services group GPG Public Key ID: 455420ED -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBEioqBn4EFUVUIO0RApf/AKC1A+9grRDHL2Yg6xU1hiE7LICZCQCfRkbH x4oIjT2aqo0pazXQ5eDXwzY= =pd4i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
