On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:14:23PM -0500, dman wrote: > > First my current setup: > 10GB Maxtor IDE disk > Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > 5.6G 5.1G 271M 96% / > 4.0G 2.5G 1.3G 64% /home > 125M 40k 124M 1% /tmp (tmpfs, not on-disk) > ><snip> > > Controllers : > > Adaptec SCSI Card 2906 > 7 devices, non-bootable, 10 MBps transfer, $63 > SCSI 1, SCSI 2, Fast SCSI 2 > > Adaptec ATA RAID 1200A > 2 ATA/100 channels, RAID 0 1 0/1 JBOD, bootable, $100 > > CompUSA (Silicon Image Sil0649CL160) > Ultra ATA 100, 2 channel, ACPI, $30 >
IMO, do not use IDE raid unless it's software RAID, and then shy away from it. RAID 0 and 1 are probably reliable on both 3ware cards and software RAID, but RAID 5 is definately dodgy on both - I have read so many nightmare stories about such setups that if you're going to do RAID 5 then only use hardware SCSI controllers (Mylex for example). These are pricey, but they will not kill you data with gay abandon - cheap (or not so) IDE RAID cards can afford you false security. Just my 2p. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England
