[plug] RAID newbie

[Sol Hanna]

Scratch the question on software raid. Just found a separate howto for 
software raid and will now read. Still would like to know about the gotchas 
and things to watch out for. 

ta; sol


On Tuesday 01 July 2003 13:44, Sol Hanna wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm about to purchase a new office server and have got a quote for a simple
> RAID set up using a RAID (PCI?) card with two 80G Western Digital HDDs and
> a single 40G Western Digital HDD for the operating system (Linux of
> course). The quote is reasonable but I've never setup RAID before. I've
> just been reading a RAID howto at linuxhq.com and may read others, but it
> hasn't totally put me at ease.
>
> The article talks about Promise RAID. So there are a few types mentioned in
> the intro, but I don't even know what I've got a quote for (although I
> assume it's Promise as I've got a fairly straight forward ATA IDE setup). I
> was under the impression that modern RPM distros (latest SuSE or Mandrake)
> auto detect and have sensible defaults when it comes to installing with
> raid. Is this so?
>
> Are there any gotchas or things to watch out for when it comes to buying
> and setting up RAID?
>
> Craig told me at the last meeting that software RAID was better in his
> opinion. Is this just a matter of installing multiple HDDs and configuring
> them to act as RAID drives?
>
> Any other words of wisdom for this RAID newbie?
>
> cheers & thanks in advance,
> sol