Re: RAID suggestions?

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On 03/19/08 10:52, Michael S. Peek wrote:
Damon L. Chesser wrote:
Having done support for a tier1 OEM, I found
many of our customers (running Linux) ignored the raid controllers and
used them as disk controllers and then used software raid.

This would be fine, I don't really care if it's a hardware or software
RAID, although it seems like a waste of money to buy a hardware RAID
card just to use as a dense SATA controller. Is there such a thing as a
SATA controller just for lots of drives? One that supports, say, 8 or
more drives and is supported by the linux kernel out of the box? All I
really want is to be able to have big-time data density in a single
machine.

...That is, unless someone knows a good and cheap way to have big-time
data density outside the machine. The other option I'm looking at is a
NAS, but it seems to me that the cheaper solution is to build a storage
server myself instead.

My biggest hurdle here is that I have absolutely no experience with SANs
or NASs, and I have a short period of time to get my proposal in, so I
was planning on going with what I know will work: a big, fat case from
rackmountpro.com with a hardware RAID card and 24 friggin' drives.

I don't think there are any non-RAID high-density PCIe controllers.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

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