From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 6 1:13:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tepid.osl.fast.no (tepid.osl.fast.no [213.188.9.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE36437B406 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 01:13:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from raw.grenland.fast.no (fw-oslo.fast.no [213.188.9.129]) by tepid.osl.fast.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA44578; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 10:13:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from raw@fast.no) Received: (from raw@localhost) by raw.grenland.fast.no (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f8675sk33335; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 09:05:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from raw) From: Raymond Wiker MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15255.8274.360080.775492@raw.grenland.fast.no> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 09:05:54 +0200 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum vs. hardware RAID (was: RAID5) In-Reply-To: <200109052200.PAA00546@mina.soco.agilent.com> References: <200109052200.PAA00546@mina.soco.agilent.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.92 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Darryl Okahata writes: > Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > It's *SO* much easier to configure the 3ware controller .... > > > > Probably also more restricted, isn't it? > > Yes. However, for many users, it does everything that they need > and want: basic RAID 0, 1, 5 (probably not recommended), & 10. > > [ It's strange, considering that many "RAID users" are home users. I'm > constantly surprised by the number of hackers setting up "home RAID" > systems (using the "on-motherboard RAID controller", the Promise > controller, or something else like vinum or 3ware). ] If every home user with a RAID setup went for one of the fault-tolerant setups, I wouldn't be surprised at all. The lack of sufficiently large and fast backup systems (compared to current disk capacities) means that a fault-tolerant RAID is probably the only practical way of protecting your data from a disk failure. I suspect that most home users actually go for RAID 0, though, for the additional speed that gives. Sooo, instead of actually doing something to improve the system reliability, they lower it. Sad, but (probably) true. (I actually have a RAID 0 setup on one of my work machines. My excuse is that the data on it is not critical :-) //Raymond. -- Raymond Wiker Raymond.Wiker@fast.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message