[CentOS] Infrastructure HELP!
Ray Van Dolson
rayvd at bludgeon.org
Thu Oct 29 19:15:06 UTC 2009
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 02:07:22PM -0500, Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> > If I can find a cheap enough RAID Card that wil fit the Mac Pro, I
> > would do hardware RAID, but Apple wants $699 for theirs...
>
> $699 is pretty steep, but RAID cards are not cheap.
> They are worth it for performance though.
>
> If you don't need absolute performance, software RAID will
> work.
>
> Give with multiple smaller drives instead of two larger
> ones.
Agreed on this one. The bigger drives are great, but even in a mirror
rebuild scenario the time to re-sync just gets longer and longer. More
risk!
$700, eesh. You can get some nice Areca cards for much less than that.
Ray
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