Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Dec 2003 18:10:05 -0800 | From | Samuel Flory <> | Subject | Re: Best Low-cost IDE RAID Solution For 2.6.x? (OT?) |
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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.
It really depends on what you mean by low cost? The ony ide raid controller that does 8 PATA drives well under linux is the 3ware controller. For SATA drives you have the 3ware, and adaptec controller. In theroy the highpoint 8 port sata card would be a good canidate for software raid, but highpoint has yet to cough up an open source drive yet.
It you want to go the software raid route and have 2 spare pci solts. You can go with either the high point rocket raid 454 (PATA), or the promise SATA150 TX4.
I really don't recommend any of promise's cards that use use the i2o driver, or any sort of binary only driver.
PS- Why not at least run software raid 5? It takes far less cpu than you'd think, and can save your ass. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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