Ubence Quevedo <r0d3nt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I am redoing my system and have three 250GB hard drives that I was
going to try and setup a raid 5 configuration with. My motherboard
is a ASUS K8N4E-Deluxe with both nforce raid and silicon image raid.
My question is, would it be best to go with either of the "hardware"
raid solutions [I know it isn't truly hardware raid], or should I use
Fedora's built in software raid for what I want to accomplish. I
can't afford an LSI or 3Ware raid card, or else I wouldn't be posting
this question.
Has anyone had any problems/horror stories with these particular
hardware raid solutions I have mentioned? On the other hand, has
anyone had any particularly bad experience with the Fedora software
raid?
I haven't had a chance to look through the mailing list to see if
anyone has asked a similar question, so please don't flame me!
Thanx, and I look forward to your responses!
-Ubence
To answer your question with a question, why do you want RAID? Are you
looking for a system that can reboot even with a failed drive, more
speed, or just security against hardware failure? I run Linux software
RAID-1 on my server and I can power down, pull a ribbon cable off of a
drive and then power up with no problems. Chances are the built-in RAID
will give you redundancy if that's all you need. It may or may not let
you autonomously boot with a failed drive.
Perhaps someone else can chime in as to whether the hardware RAID you
have is any faster than Linux software RAID.
Cheers,
Dave
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