[luau] Upgrading servers

[Matt Darnell]

I bought a 3ware IDE RAID 1 card because of all the talk of them on this
list.  I would say it has average speed at best, the Promise controller
seemed to be faster (I don't want to get into the whole host processing
debate).

The biggest thing against the 3ware card is I was not able to unplug the
hard drives from the card and directly into the IDE on the motherboard.  The
PC refused to boot.  I guess the 3ware card puts a proprietary signature on
the drives.  Anyone find a way around this?  If not you have to have a spare
card in case yours goes down.

-Matt





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Chee" <chee at hawaii.edu>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 3:57 PM
Subject: [luau] Upgrading servers


> Hi folks:
> I'm looking at someday soon building two new servers....
>
> 1.    Apache server with other nice doodads, but needs RAID 1 for
> reliability.
> 2.    NFS/Samba server with lots of fast RAID 5 disks.
>
> What RAID controllers are people using now, and is SATA something worth
> moving towards? All my previous servers have been LVD2 and cost a kings
> ransom or fiber channel and cost even more. I'm trying to create some
ultra
> reliable servers (disk wise) that won't kill my entire budget.
>
> I'm looking at going all Fedora...
>
> /brian chee
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