On 1/12/2010 6:05 PM, Peter Kjellstrom wrote:
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...that said, it's not much worse than the competetion, storage simply sucks ;-(
So you are saying people dole out huge amounts of money for rubbish? That the software raid people were and have always been right?
Nope, storage sucks, that includes the software ;-)
If you can split the storage up into 2TB or smaller volumes that you can mount into sensible locations to spread the load and avoid contention you can always use software RAID1.
Funny you should mention software RAID1... I've seen two instances of that getting silently out-of-sync and royally screwing things up beyond all repair.
Silently as in it didn't yell at you or silently as in 'cat /proc/mdstat' showed them in sync but they weren't? I've only ever seen one of the latter and it was in a machine with bad RAM - don't think any disk controller could have helped with that.