Re: Best Low-cost IDE RAID Solution For 2.6.x? (OT?)

[ruschein@mail-infomine.ucr.edu (Johannes Ruscheinski)]

Also sprach Joel Jaeggli:
> well if you currently have 1tb in 8 non-redundant drives then you using 
> 160GB disks... no?
> 
> the biggest p-ata disks right now are ~320GB so you can do a ~1TB software 
> raid 5 stripe on a single 4 port ata controller such as a promise tx4000 
> using regular software raid rather than the promise raid. that would end 
> up being fairly inexpensive and buy you more protection.

Fisrt of all: thanks for the advice Joel!  Two questions: why not use the
hardware raid capability of the Promise tx4000 and if we'd use software
raid instead, what would be the CPU overhead?

> 
> linux software raid hsa been as releiable as anything else we've used over 
> the years, the lack of reliabilitiy in your situation will come entirely 

Good to hear.

> from failing disks, lose one and your filesystem is toast.

I was aware of that, thanks!

> 
> joelja
> 
> On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Johannes Ruscheinski wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We're looking for a low-cost high-reliability IDE RAID solution that works well
> > with the 2.6.x series of kernels.  We have about 1 TB (8 disks) that we'd
> > like to access in a non-redundant raid mode.  Yes, I know, that lack of
> > redundancy and high reliability are contradictory.  Let's just say that
> > currently we lack the funding to do anything else but we may be able to obtain
> > more funding for our disk storage needs in the near future.
> > 
> 
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