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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Simon <turner25@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I would recommend software raid. Because it's made by some great |
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> folks in the linux community and it is a project in development (so |
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> you can get lots of support and updates, though it is very stable and |
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> is used in many prod systems). |
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I'm using software RAID5 (with SATA hard drives) for a couple years |
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and -- without having any drive failures so far -- it seems to work |
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well. I've got dmcrypt on top of it and performance is pretty |
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transparent for the most part. Having core 2 duo helps, I guess. :) |
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It was dead simple to set up, but I have (thankfully) not run into any |
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drive failures so far. I should really prepare an off-line document |
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with the recovery procedure should that happen. I'm not sure off the |
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top of my head (other than pull bad drive, replace with new drive). In |
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fact I need to make sure I know which drive is which! |
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It has survived several crashes/power outages. For my RAID5 (four |
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500gb drives) it took about 90 minutes for the raid to verify after |
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such incidents. I know there are benefits to hardware RAID but for low |
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cost/low importance (it's my home PC) the software RAID is good enough |
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for me. |
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