Christian Pernegger wrote:
Intel SE7230NH1-E mainboard Pentium D 930
HPA recently said that x86_64 CPUs have better RAID5 performance.
Promise Ultra133 TX2 (2ch PATA) - 2x Maxtor 6B300R0 (300GB, DiamondMax 10) in RAID1 Onboard Intel ICH7R (4ch SATA) - 4x Western Digital WD5000YS (500GB, Caviar RE2) in RAID5
Is it a NAS kind of device? In that case, drop the 2x 300GB disks and get 6x 500GB instead. You can partition those so that you have a RAID1 spanning the first 10GB of all 6 drives for use as the system partition, and use the rest in a RAID5.
* Does this hardware work flawlessly with Linux?
No clue.
* Is it advisable to boot from the mirror?
Should work.
Would the box still boot with only one of the disks?
If you configure things correctly - better test it.
* Can I use EVMS as a frontend?
Yes.
Does it even use md or is EVMS's RAID something else entirely?
EVMS uses a lot of underlying software, MD being one component.
* Should I use the 300s as a single mirror, or span multiple ones over the two disks?
What would the purpose be?
* Am I even correct in assuming that I could stick an array in another box and have it work?
Work for what?
Comments welcome
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