On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 15:56 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > If you aren't dual booting a Windows OS you should consider just using > the card as a nonraid controller and use software raid. It doesn't look > like that card comes with battery backed cache, so it probably won't help > noticably with performance. By using software raid, you aren't tied to > the hardware and if the controller dies you don't need to buy the same > card to get your data back. All very true. But, the Fedora 7 PC I pulled this hardware from didn't have any onboard SATA, so I had originally decided to purchase the RAID card to give me SATA II ports AND do the RAID in hardware (the PC is 5 years old). Now that I've moved it all into my new PC, I have access to on board SATA. So, the plan is to: 1. move the data from the old RocktRAID 1740 RAID 5 to my Linux RAID 1 2. disconnect all 3 drives from the RAID card 3. connect the same 3 drives to the on board SATA I/II ports 4. remove the RAID card 5. configure Linux RAID 5 on those drives That'll make me sleep better at night. :) But, I'm in no rush to do it, especially since I make daily backups. It took long enough to move all the hardware around today. Maybe I'll make the change in a few months. FYI: I'm doing all of this just so I can run FreeNAS in a KVM VM on my PC. I don't think freebsd can read from or write to Linux LVM, so I'll have to use NFS on top in order use the storage in FreeNAS. Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.27.24-170.2.68.fc10.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 17:14:38 up 1:41, 4 users, load average: 0.41, 0.22, 0.21 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
