Hardware RAID Cards..

[Tony Shadwick]

Just be careful on what card you choose.  Aside from simply making sure 
there are drivers for it, you also have to check on the little things.

Like, oh, being able to non-destructively grow the size of the RAID5 
array.

I bought a Promise SX6000.  I have 3 200GB drives that will be in RAID5. 
If I wish to add a 4th, it can't add it to the array.  I have to destory 
the array and start over.

Like I said, the little things. :\

Also, remember that growfs is your friend.

Tony

On Thu, 26 May 2005, Aaron C. Meadows wrote:

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> Kirk Strauser wrote:
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>> On Tuesday 24 May 2005 14:48, Aaron C. Meadows wrote:
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>>> I'm planning on using RAID 5, since they are kind of small drives, and
>>> I'm more interested in reliability and size, than speed.
>>
>>
>> Hmmm - I'd probably look toward a hardware system, then. I've had great
>> luck with software mirroring and striping, but those really don't put a lot
>> of demand on the CPU. If you're also doing database, mail, and PHP on the
>> same system then you'd probably want a bit of external acceleration.
>
> Don't everyone jump on this thread all at once.. I won't be able to
> read it fast enough... =)
>
> --aaron
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