Re: Best Low-cost IDE RAID Solution For 2.6.x? (OT?)

[Johannes Ruscheinski]

Also sprach Tomas Szepe:
> On Dec-28 2003, Sun, 18:10 -0800
> Samuel Flory <sflory@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > PS- Why not at least run software raid 5?  It takes far less cpu than 
> > you'd think, and can save your ass.
> 
> Absolutely.  With eight low-cost IDE disks, you'd be nuts to go raid0
> or linear.
> 

I'll probably go with raid5 and the Promise tx4000 card recommended by Joel.
It looks like I'll have the funding to buy another box and another 1 TiB of
disk space.  Thanks for all the advice!!

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