RE: RAID

[nospam [at] south-of-heaven.demon.co.uk]

>
> View RAID as a high throughput (RAID 0,1) or high availability (RAID 5 or
> RAID 10 - mirrored RAID 5) hard disk, not a data security solution or it
> will come back & bite you badly. And go for a hardware RAID solution with
> hot-swap, software RAID is IMHO a bad thing. Learn what RAID is and does,
> and the benefits & drawbacks (for instance 4 seperate r/w operations to
> write a single sector of data in RAID 5). Compaq do a very good system with
> SmartArray, the Mylex cards are also excellent, go for a solution that
> stores the RAID map on the disks rather than a dumb system which leaves the
> map on a config sheet which inevitably gets lost.

Hardware RAID is AFAIK not THAT well supported under Linux.
Also see comments here: (scroll down a bit)
http://www.uk.linux.org/diary/


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