Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:27:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: A RAID-ing I will go... Message-ID: <20040831212015.D11560@xeon.unixathome.org>
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I have two 3Ware 7006-2 cards (capable of RAID-1 on two IDE drives) and one Adaptec 2400A (RAID-5 on 4 IDE drives). At present, the 3Ware cards are in FreeBSD machines (ngaio and polo). The goal: move one 3Ware card to my Windows XP workstation and install the 2400A in its place. polo is my main development workstation. It has 80GB now and is at 37% capacity. After installing the 2400A with 4x80GB drives under RAID-5, I'll have 240GB of space (which may be more space than is currently used on my entire network). I plan to do this in two moves: ngaio is rarely used, I can live without it for some time. I will use the 3Ware controller from that. Then use a trial version of some disk cloning software to populate the array. I could use dd under FreeSBIE, which would be an interesting exercise. Once the NT controller is up and running, I'll install the 2400A in polo, dd everything over, adjust /etc/fstab, and see how things go. It can't be that simple... Any comments? One point about hardware RAID: it's nice to have a spare card around in case your controller fails.... I think I'll hunt down another 2400A.... -- Dan Langille - http://www.langille.org/
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