Yes, though slammed hardware RAID a bit. Software RAID has it's place don't get me wrong, it's just knowing when and where. Now the problem I have with your approach under the OP's requirements is the only way to fit that kinda storage over that long a period is with external enclosures and there isn't many systems that have external 4 lane serial storage connectors builtin, so one needs a card that can perform that and if you are shopping for a card to do that then you might as well get one for a few $100 more that has on board RAID. Also if the OP wanted to switch distro's he will not have to worry about losing the RAID configuration or hosing it in the process. -Ross ----- Original Message ----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org <centos-bounces at centos.org> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Sent: Tue May 06 20:39:52 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] I need storage server advice The point was, acceptable performance can be had without purchasing a hardware controller. And for archival purposes on a tight budget $500 bucks means one controller for 3 more drives. On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:17 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Take these benchmarks with a grain of salt. and, more importantly, for the thread at hand, this guy wants an ARCHIVE server, where performance is quite secondary, reliablity and data retention are more important. If he had the budget, I'd be suggesting looking at something like Copan's MAID system. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Jason Luck favors the prepared. ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080506/a39046b6/attachment-0005.html>