As many people have stated in this thread, 3ware and Areca make some good hardware RAID solutions.
Software RAID using mdadm works too, quite well, I might add. I was one of those people who stayed away from software RAID in linux, thinking it was too complicated and difficult, I was wrong. It's dead easy to do, and expanding your disks can be done on the fly (if you have a SATA controller that supports hotplugging as many these days do.) Perhaps the best thing about software RAID, in my opinion, is that it's light enough on the machine that a PIII server can be reading/writing to the array at 10MB/s.
Now you might say, 10MB/s, who cares? That's small stuff. But, when that's the load the network infrastructure at this location was designed to handle, you don't need anything higher performance.
Just my two cents. -Hal
Christopher Chan wrote:
Paolo Supino wrote:
Hi
Last week I had a lengthy thread in which someone indicated the my SIL card is a FRAID (don't know if F stands for the F word or Fake, though it doesn't really matter). I want to replace the controller with a controller that Linux will see the RAID1 group as a single HD and not multiple HDs as it happens with the SIL controller. Recommendations anyone?
Adaptec RAID 2405, 3ware, Areca
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