Damon L. Chesser wrote:
Alas! I just don't know about SATA controllers. Given your
situation, it would appear that your plan is the best one. I would
stick with what you know and what you know works. Time is short and
your rep is on the line. Beyond that, I would have to let some one
more experienced with NAS/custom storage then myself advise you. RAID
I feel comfortable with. Talking about big high density SATA
controllers vs NAS, I do not.
So I'm not a complete loon? Excellent. At least that makes me feel better.
Like I said, in the past I've used 3ware, but on the last build I did I
couldn't get the monitoring software to run. The command-line tool
worked fine, but the monitor would segfault. So I wound up kludging it
by having a cron job call a script that would run the command line tool,
feed it the commands necessary to check the status of the RAID, and then
check the output for any string that looked like an error. It works
great for a kludge, but that's to say that it's not elegant by a long
shot. (For instance, it doesn't know the difference between not OK and
"VERIFYING", so once a week I get 99 emails that say, "An error was
found: VERIFYING 1%", 2%, 3%, ...)
It looks as though the new player on the block is Areca, which seems to
be highly recommended in the reviews I've read, and it has driver
support in the linux kernel out of the box. But I can't find the
program (or is it kernel module?) for the http interface -- arechttp I
think it's called.
What else is out there for HW RAID, and how easy is it to use w/ a stock
kernel?
Michael
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