Aaron C. Meadows wrote:
I have an IBM Netfinity 5000 server I just picked up, and it has an
Adaptec AAA-131U2 (aic7815 chipset) RAID card in it, attached to 5 IBM
Branded (Seagate ST39204LC) Hot Swap Ultra160 9.1gig SCSI Harddrives.
My question is, since that chipset is unsupported for hardware
On Tue, 24 May 2005, Kirk Strauser wrote:
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:57, Aaron C. Meadows wrote:
My question is, since that chipset is unsupported for hardware RAID,
would I be better off to software RAID them, or get a different RAID
card?
What RAID level do you plan on using? Mirroring sho
Just be careful on what card you choose. Aside from simply making sure
there are drivers for it, you also have to check on the little things.
Like, oh, being able to non-destructively grow the size of the RAID5
array.
I bought a Promise SX6000. I have 3 200GB drives that will be in RAID5.
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Kirk Strauser wrote:
>On Tuesday 24 May 2005 14:48, Aaron C. Meadows wrote:
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>>I'm planning on using RAID 5, since they are kind of small drives, and
>>I'm more interested in reliability and size, than speed.
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>Hmmm - I'd probably look toward a
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 14:48, Aaron C. Meadows wrote:
> I'm planning on using RAID 5, since they are kind of small drives, and
> I'm more interested in reliability and size, than speed.
Hmmm - I'd probably look toward a hardware system, then. I've had great
luck with software mirroring and stri
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I'm planning on using RAID 5, since they are kind of small drives, and
I'm more interested in reliability and size, than speed.
Kirk Strauser wrote:
>On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:57, Aaron C. Meadows wrote:
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>>My question is, since that chipset is uns
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:57, Aaron C. Meadows wrote:
> My question is, since that chipset is unsupported for hardware RAID,
> would I be better off to software RAID them, or get a different RAID
> card?
What RAID level do you plan on using? Mirroring shouldn't use much CPU, for
example, but pa
