Christian Pernegger wrote:
Anything specific wrong with the Maxtors?
No. I've used Maxtor for a long time and I'm generally happy with them. They break now and then, but their online warranty system is great. I've also been treated kindly by their help desk - talked to a cute gal from Maxtor in Ireland over the phone just yesterday ;-). Then again, they've just been acquired by Seagate, or so, so things may change for the worse, who knows. I'd watch out regarding the Western Digital disks, apparently they have a bad habit of turning themselves off when used in RAID mode, for some reason: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.devel/1980/
I read somewhere that this could reduce rebuild time when a "disk" (partition in this case) is kicked offline because of a timeout or somesuch. Sounds a bit fishy, which is why I'm asking.
The bitmap code in MD is for fast rebuilding, if you need that.
The point of the whole exercise is that I don't want to be cut off from my data, just because a part of the host (not the disks) died.
I don't see any large risks of that happening with the setup you've outlined.
And iSCSI sounds way too expensive. :)
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