>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Walrond <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Andrew> Likewise. I've been using exclusively SATA with linux raid for Andrew> quite a while now, with great success. But for the super Andrew> resilient zero downtime servers I now need to deploy, I must Andrew> be able to swap dead drives without taking the server Andrew> down. Hence my query. Andrew> Off-list respondants have recommended 3ware hardware raid Andrew> products, but throughput concerns on another thread here have Andrew> really put me off that idea. Hmm... I've been watching those 3ware discussions with interest as well, but I haven't seen any commments on how well they work as JBOD controllers, esp if you get smaller ones with fewer channels and stripe/mirror between controllers. If you pair disks between controllers, then that should limit the downtime, and also improve performance. I've been thinking that getting a pair of the two or four change old 74xx series 3ware controllers and then striping across RAID pairs done between controllers. John - 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
