[mythtv-users] RAID5 ATA IDE hardware card recommendations for mythbackend machine

Yan-Fa Li yanfali at best.com
Thu Dec 9 01:27:09 UTC 2004


Yes move the disks to another machine and reboot.

Bryan Brannigan wrote:
> What is the reliability of software RAID in the event of a motherboard
> failure?  Will I be able to recover my array?
> 
> Can I add drives to the array later?
> 
> 
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 13:44:28 -0900, John Andersen
> <jsa at video.homelinux.org> wrote:
> 
>>On Tuesday 07 December 2004 12:51, Andrew Plumb wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>>For those who do use hardware RAID5 cards for ATA IDE drives, which
>>>cards have you (not) had success with, for use in a mythtvbackend
>>>machine?  Or in any Linux-based machine for that matter?
>>>
>>>I'm pondering picking up something like a Promise FastTrak SX4000.
>>
>>Why bother.  Software raid easily outperforms any of these
>>raid cards,  Its Robust, Mature, Universally Supported, Open Source
>>and highly configurable.
>>
>>Oh, and did I say ROCK SOLID?
>>
>>--
>>______Jsa_________
>>
>>


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