James B. Byrne wrote:
On Thu, November 14, 2013 12:51, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 14.11.2013 18:23, schrieb James B. Byrne:
From what I have read it appears that the system disk must use RAID 1 if it uses RAID at all.
So, this is saying, if I read it aright, that one can have multiple RAID arrays spread over the same spindles but each in differing partitions. Is that right?
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BTW, I intend to install CentOS-6.4 with software RAID as the eight disks are mounted in the system chassis. As far as I can tell, there is no
hardware
RAID controller (unless there is one on the MB, in which case SW Raid is likely a better choice anyway.
Big question: what manufacturer, and what support chips? Most of our Dells have PERC 6xx or 7xx, which is good hardware RAID. We have several boxes with the Intel RAID on chip - aka fakeRAID. They are a *pain*, and we had them just present unRAIDed drives, and used the very nice to use Linux software RAID.
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