On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 03:40:15PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Jan 15, 9:10 am, Gregory Seidman <gsslist > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > anything that > > kills your motherboard (short circuit in the memory, CPU overheating, etc.) > > also takes out your RAID controller. To be able to access your data you'll > > need the same RAID controller > > doh! I hadn't thought of that. Thanks. Software it is! > > I have an existing setup that uses four 120G drives in software RAID 5 > under windows 2000, and I learned that it's best to have exactly the > same kind of drives. Mixing WD and Seagate caused problems. Is that > a RAID 5 idiosyncrasy or a windows thing?
I've heard it recommended for any RAID, but I've never had a problem under Linux sw RAID with differing brands of drives. --Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
