Re: RAID easy?

Ivan Marsh wrote:
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:18:52 -0500, dnoyeB wrote:


Im suing RAID now, but i fear if it went tits up I would have NO idea how to rebuild it.


RTFM?



right. but when the system is down and its 8 months from now I wont remember the procedure and ill be surfing the web trying to figure out how to get it going. Whereas with hardware I hear I just pop in the new drive and go.

How is the RAID support in fedora, and which version should I use? Is there a certain chipset I should get or stay away from?


Fedora supports software RAID and many hardware RAID configurations. What
level of RAID are you looking for?

Software RAID is best avoided in systems where the data is critical.


Whats a strategy for easy repair if a drive fails, and will both drives
be exactly the same, or will I have to not RAID the boot sector?


That depends on the controller and what level of RAID you're talking about.



Im using what I believe is RAID-1. I mean to increase the reliability of my data. Yes my data is critical as in I don't want to loose it. But I already backup. The RAID is more to save me a few days reconfiguring a system and loading backup files if the drive happens to crash. I want to just plug in a new drive and go. Is this possible with software RAID?

I had one of my RAID drives start flaking out before but I was not able to make heads or tails of it, and it sort of stopped doing that. I think my MB gets flakey some times perhaps due to heat but I dont know. Normally it runs flawlessly for months on end. But if it crashes it can take several tries and sometimes a day to get it running again after which I really did not make any changes...

So ill probably get a new system and hope the drivers or or hardware turn out to be more stable. So thats why I ask if I should get hardware RAID or maybe software is good enough?


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