On Nov 16, 2007 6:16 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 08:15:22PM -0500, System Administrator wrote: > > On 16 Nov 2007 at 16:36, Pawel Veselov wrote: > > > > (just trying to find a cheap SATA hardware raid card...) > > > > Executive summary: Find another card or use soft-raid. > > > > The long answer: > > > > The redundancy provided by a RAID set is merely a stop-gap measure -- > > it allows to avoid a hard crash and perform the necessary maintenance > > on your terms (i.e. when it is more convenient). It is not a panacea > > against disk failure, which almost inevitably will eventually occur > > given heavy enough usage and/or harsh environmental conditions. > [snip problems with the 3ware card] > > Then what card would be suggested that will provide the necessary > support (as outlined) for SATA drives? Assuming that there will be a > price range, what would that range look like?
Or PATA for that matter. However, since I am only really interested in doing RAID1, really to prevent a fatal disk crash heavily impacting the runtime, I can as well use soft RAID. If I use 'ccd', will I be able to mirror the root partition? Or simply have only two disks (primary and a mirror), have a really small root partition, and mount 'ccd' devices from the fstab ? Or can I mount root on a 'ccd' ? (don't see how) Thanks, Pawel.
