Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 16:42:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> To: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: RAID5 Message-ID: <20010903163858.N58263-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <20010903142145.K10812-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org>
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On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Chris BeHanna wrote: > AFAIK, there are no IDE RAID cards that support RAID-5. You are >stuck with RAID 0, 1 or 10. Although these are just fine for what >they are, they don't do what RAID-5 does. RAID-10 is an acceptable >substitute for RAID-5 if you have the money for the spare spindles. Both Promise and Adaptec now have out IDE RAID5 cards. Check their respective websites. I don't know about the state of support for either. You likely need to ask Mike Smith. As for my preferred solution we use the Arena II external IDE RAID boxes from Maxtronic. They're available through RaidWeb and StorNet off the top of my head. They do RAID 0,1,10,5 with up to 128MB of SDRAM cache, redundant hotswap power supplies and the IDE drives are hot swappable with online rebuild of the array. It's like buying a really expensive SCSI RAID solution but then being able to put 100GB IDE drives in it. The hardware isn't as cheap as a PCI card, but we've found it worth it. Plus it's OS independent since it appears simply as a large SCSI drive to the OS. -- "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a law against it by that time." -- /usr/games/fortune, 07/30/2001 Brandon D. Valentine <bandix at looksharp.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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