Home RAID question

[Josh Coates]

> > My first question is, is there a decent RAID 5 card within the $20, 
> > $80, and $120 range?

i agree w/ gabe - go software raid5 for something like this.  

the only thing hardware raid5 will give you is a battery backed write cache
for fast writes, which software can never give you (which is why software
raid5 can be unsafe for database applications unless you writes are sync'd,
which is slow like the lazy dog instead of fast like the quick rabbit.)

of course, when you say "I am not too worried about loosing some files" then
just do a raid0, but know that you *will* be hosed if you lose one disk.

-josh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org] On 
> Behalf Of Gabriel Gunderson
> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 10:47 AM
> To: Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Home RAID question
> 
> On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 10:02 -0600, Kenneth Burgener wrote:
> > My first question is, is there a decent RAID 5 card within the $20, 
> > $80, and $120 range?
> 
> I actually prefer software raid to cheap hardware cards.  At 
> least you know what you are getting into.  I'd expect to pay 
> more then any of those for something decent.
> 
> My 2 cents.
> 
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