[plug] RAID newbie

[Sol Hanna]

Right here:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-0.4x-HOWTO.html

sol


On Wednesday 02 July 2003 09:44, Dirk wrote:
> 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