Guest EverythingWeb Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 3Ware RAID controller in the cubecart.com server, yeah There is conflict with Dell/Linux/Software raid so hardware is best in this case :innocent: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Decker Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 *Edit* - Yes it is. 2 x 80GB Sata 7,200rpm. They are from different manufacturers though. If you can get 2 identical disks, an 80-100G disk is pretty cheap now so might even be worth stumping up for 2 new faster/bigger disks for this, it's more preferable than a pick and mix. You can get wierd errors with mismatched disks on RAID. :innocent: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Brookbanks Posted November 20, 2006 Author Share Posted November 20, 2006 Thanks EverythingWeb, I remember the hosting company telling me I had to have hardware raid with Fedora + Dell. I may invest in two fat new disks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 3ware makes the best hardware raid controllers I've ever used quite honestly. I've been using them since 1999 and have never had one crash. But RAID 0 is NOT what you want. RAID 0 is striping to share the data across two drives. There is NO protection in a RAID 0 configuration. RAID 1 on the other hand is simple mirroring. The easy way to remember the difference is that RAID 0 has ZERO data protection. RAID 0 is simply used to expand available space across multiple smaller drives. My absolute favorite is hardware RAID 5+1 which is a set of drives in a RAID 5 array with a 2nd array backing the first up. Unfortunately, that requires a minimum of 6 drives to implement. Our big Black Friday sales here this week will have 1GB thumb drives on sale for under $14 USD. Same price for Secure Digital cards. For that price, I'm going to buy 2 or 3 of them for backing up my stuff here. I can store every piece of code I've ever written easily on a 1GB thumb drive. Then I just toss it in the car's glove box and don't worry about it. :wacko: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Brookbanks Posted November 20, 2006 Author Share Posted November 20, 2006 Thanks Bill. Raid 5+1 is probably slightly too much for me right now. Raid 1 should do fine to start and thanks for the testimonial about 3ware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Decker Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 Should've said that before , you could get away with a 4 disk RAID5 (3 data 1 parity), but RAID1 should do you fine with the other backup option Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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