Raid Card controller for FC System

[Joe Tseng]

I saw a few people respond with saying how hardware RAID is overkill for 
home use.  I had the system drive in my RH9 RAID1 file server at home die on 
me last year; although I got a new drive and FC6 recognised the RAID 
immediately I'm not sure whether my recovery was due to software resilency 
or dumb luck.  I'm currently working on gathering parts for a RAID5 file 
server as a replacement.

1) If a RAIDed drive dies in a soft RAID setup can I assume I can't do a 
hotswap?
2) If my system drive dies again would a new system recognize my RAID5 
array?
3) Does soft RAID5 compare favorably against hware RAID5?

 - Joe

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Albert Graham" <agraham at g-b.net>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: Raid Card controller for FC System


> Most modern motherboards will all you to have 4 or 6 SATA drives 
> connected, so the cheap solution is to use Linux software raid, that's the 
> best bang for your buck you're gonna get :)