raid controller recommendation
Robert L Cochran
cochranb at speakeasy.net
Fri Dec 12 02:29:56 UTC 2003
Jesse, what advantage does having a 16 drive RAID array give you? I'm in
no way a RAID expert and don't understand the business need for a 16
drive array.
Thanks!
Bob
Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thursday 11 December 2003 17:35, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
>
>>'more' is not the word ;-), it's _much more_
>>
>>
>>>raid isn't cheap. Promise and BCM aren't true hardware raid last
>>>time I checked, you're still using your own CPU to calculate raid
>>>operations. Especially harmfull when doing raid 5.
>>
>>Yes, they aren't RAID boards. But Linux_soft_raid is cheaper, more
>>secure and flexible and not slower.
>>I don't see any case where is the best a low end RAID board than
>>Linux_soft_raid.
>
>
> For 2 drive stuff, sure maybe. But we deal with 4/8/12/16 drive
> chassis, all on 3ware stuff. I don't think software raid can handle
> those situations. Especially not with remote web configurations,
> alerts (included, not build your own), etc...
>
> Software raid has it's place, and it's cheap, but the Original Poster
> asked for a hardware solution. The only solution I would consider is a
> 3ware solution.
>
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Bob Cochran
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