[plug] RAID newbie

[Sol Hanna]

Thankyous to Craig, Tony, Daniel and Bill for all the RAID tips. I'll be 
looking into all of them further over the next couple of days. It all helps 
me feel a little more confident about the do's and dont's of RAID.

cheers; sol


On Tuesday 01 July 2003 15:21, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> One reason to choose the promise or highpoint controllers is that they
> are a high speed IDE interface in their own right, not just for the raid
> part.  At the time I bought my raid MB, this gave me 8 ide channels, all
> 100M, with the highpoint ones showing a performance advantage under test
> over the standard via ide bus.  Wish I had kept a copy of the test ...
>
> Note that for software raid to work well, you need to put some thought
> into how you are arranging disks (chunk size, spread across IDE channels
> etc)
>
> BillK
>
> On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 14:01, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > To clarify, I'd be more comfortable using software RAID than any kind of
> > half-assed effort like the Promise and Highpoint controllers. They're
> > really little more than software RAID themselves, just controlled by the
> > driver. Cheap "hardware" RAID is not an attractive idea to me.