On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 13:36, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Di, den 15.06.2004 schrieb Globe Trotter um 15:09: > > > Sorry, but how/where do I get a hardware RAID adapter? I presume there are also > > directions for installing it? > > For which reason do you want RAID? Is it a critical production system > which must run and where downtime costs money? Then kick away your cheap > controller and by a more expensive one where the chipset runs the RAID > logic. Adaptec offers you such high price RAID controllers as well as > 3Ware. > > With such real hardware RAID adapters you only see the RAID array and no > single drives. You set up all RAID functions in the controller BIOS and > you need no OS driver to have RAID functions. I.e. the 3Ware controllers > are auto detected by Fedora Linux and you do not have to care for the > RAID setup once you told the controller how to behave in it's BIOS. > > On the other hand, if you are a home user such hardware RAID controllers > are mostly too expensive. Then just use Linux software RAID. > > Ok, I feel you got enough explanations. If still unsure please search > this list's archive and do google search. The thing is really simple. ---- just a thought that I had through all of this... with 3 controllers in the box, you could have 3 drive raid 5, all on separate controllers and get some decent performance - albeit software raid. Craig
