[plug] RAID newbie

[Dirk]

were is this faq I would be most intrested in it myself ;)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sol Hanna [mailto:sol at autonomon.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 1:51 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] RAID newbie
> 
> 
> 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