Re: Raid on Sarge

2005-07-11 Thread h2t-nl
Hi, Oke... Understand. So what I need to check is only to see whether it is a truly hardware raid or not, otherwise use software raid! I think using Linux software raid is pretty save becaude this is already tested through the community! So I will test it then to see whether I can made my system

Re: Raid on Sarge

2005-07-08 Thread Roman Muñoz
Hi, ATA, Ultra-ATA, SATA... no matter, this is IDE bus speed, the question being (IMHO) "raid". As you can see on other answers to your question, and in other threads too, most cheap "hardware raid" controllers (even SATA) are truly software raid. Only if you card is more than $300 it could be tru

Re: Raid on Sarge

2005-07-07 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:16:22AM -0700, h2t-nl wrote: > The main interested part of my question is whether somebody on the list > already using or tested with somekind of sata controller! Almost none of the SATA controllers that advertise RAID are real hardware RAID; the RAID features of them ar

Re: Raid on Sarge

2005-07-07 Thread h2t-nl
Hi Roman, It´s oke to me regarding the subject.. Are you talking about SATA raid here or ATA raid? Because I want to use SATA raid. In my case it doesn´t really matter which raid is to be active. If SW raid as good as the HW raid then I can life with that. The main interested part of my question

Re: Raid on Sarge

2005-07-07 Thread Roman Muñoz
Hi, (I changed the subject so to find it will be more easy for people googleing or the like. I hope) I have no idea about raid 10, but these are the important things I found about raid on sarge 1) Cheap fake raid cards as Promise (I don't know if this is the case), etc, don't work o