In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706181255540.31683@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Mike wrote: > >> I'm creating a larger backup server that uses bacula (this >> software works well). The way I'm going about this I need >> lots of space in the filesystem where temporary files are >> stored. I have been looking at the Norco (link at the bottom), >> but there seem to be some grumblings that the adapter card >> does not play well with linux. >> >> Has anyone used this device or have another suggestion? I'm >> looking at something that will present lots of disk to the >> linux box (fedore core 5, kernel 2.6.20) that I will put >> under md/RAID and LVM. I want to have between 1.5TB and 3.0TB >> of usable space after all the RAID'ing. >> >> Mike >> >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816133001 > > Get 3 Hitachi 1TB drives and use SW RAID5 on an Intel 965 motherboard OR > use PCI-e cards that use the Silicon Image chipset. > > 04:00.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3132 Serial ATA Raid > II Controller (rev 01) > > Justin. Any idea if the Hitachi 1 TB drives will work in a Dell PowerEdge 800? I have two 80GB drives in the box right now that I would like to replace with four of the 1 TB drives. Mike - 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
