[CentOS] Hardware Raid cards RAID 0 / 1
Joshua Baker-LePain
jlb17 at duke.edu
Tue Jul 11 23:13:13 UTC 2006
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 at 4:09pm, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote
> Adaptec and 3ware solutins seem to work nicely. With Adaptec, I'd be
> carefull to get aacraid based card, not I2O. In my very limited experience,
> 3ware cards were not as flexible as Adaptec's aacraid based cards. The 3ware
> you configure once and that's it. With Adaptec, you can migrate data from
> individual drives into RAID arrays, expand arrays (even RAID-5), change RAID
> levels (migrate volume from for example RAID-1 to RAID-5) and so on. All
> while the host is up and running. Well, at least with those I had in my
> hands (like for example the SCSI based 2200S).
The newer 3ware cards (95xx series, IIRC) do support RAID level migration
and array expansion, all online.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
More information about the CentOS
mailing list