[CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

Wed Feb 18 16:17:28 UTC 2009
Ray Van Dolson <rayvd at bludgeon.org>

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 08:13:23AM -0800, dnk wrote:
> 
> On 18-Feb-09, at 2:01 AM, John Doe wrote:
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> >>> For controller, what is the interface on your drives??  SCSI, SAS??
> >> Dell 2950, SAS 6 Host Bus Controller.
> >
> > Integrated SAS 6/i(base): 4 port SAS controller (does support RAID  
> > 0/1)
> > But I don't know if that is descent hw raid or crap raid...
> >
> > JD
> 
> This was kind of the reason I was thinking software raid.
> 
> Has anyone had any raid experience with this card?
> 
> d

So this isn't the PERC then?  The PERC should be real hardware RAID...

Ray