Brett Serkez spake the following on 9/14/2006 5:04 AM: > <snip> > >> > I would highly advise simply paying the money for a RAID >> > Controller card to handle all of this for you. You mentioned >> > that you do not have physical access to the server, so the >> > Raid card can easily handle hdd failures and send you an email >> > letting you know that you need to replace the other drive. >> >> That's actually a very good point. The only thing is that the machine >> doesn't generate any revenue and so it'll heavlily depend on the price >> of the RAID controler really... > > Run software RAID without a hardware controller. I have running Linux > servers with identical hard drives using the kernel's software RAID > support on production servers. Since you already have the two drives, > it is a no cost approach, simply configure the software RAID in disk > druid during install and off you go. If you are concerned about > monitoring, write a cron job to check the contents of /proc/mdstat > periodically. Mdadm can be set to e-mail any failures to the sysadmin. http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2002/12/05/RAID.html -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!