[geeks] Big Damn File System....

[Gil Young]

One of the reasons I prefer Solaris over other free OS'es is that it comes 
with software RAID.  If there was such a beast for Linux on intel hardware, 
i'd probably consider it for personal use.  But having a SS5 cycle system 
running Sol 8 with mirrored drives, well, it makes me sleep so comfy at 
night...

At 09:07 AM 6/22/01 -0700, you wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joshua D. Boyd [mailto:jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu]
> >
>[snip]
> > hold more drives), a few cheapish SCSI drives, and a used
> > Raid5 controller
> > (those things can be had for under $100 on ebay!!!).  MP3s will always
> > stay on cheaper IDE solutions, but I would like to get my data to
> > something more fool proof.
>
>Depending on what you have for a machine, and you're looking for cheap...
>I'd go for software RAID 5 over an older RAID 5 card.  The older cards were
>pretty darn slow.  I haven't done much performance testing on SPARCs for
>RAID 5, but a P-166, with decent SCSI hardware, is plenty fast enough for
>doing RAID5, and NFS.  If you want really huge capacity, get a 3Ware IDE
>RAID card, and throw a bunch of big IDE drives at it.  Oops, you got me
>started on RAID...
>         Greg
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Gil Young
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