That's easy to say Carl, but in practice you are looking at a $700.00 for a card that I would trust with my data. I'm not saying that I have not thought about it since having it take care of the parity calculations would take a load off of my machine, but still thats enough money to buy 3 decent 1TB drives.<br>
<br><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816116056">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816116056</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Carl L. Gilbert <<a href="mailto:clg-social@rigidsoftware.com">clg-social@rigidsoftware.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 17:41 +0200, Boleslaw Ciesielski wrote:<br>
> Matt Nelson wrote:<br>
> > On one of my mythtv backend servers I host my fileserver that stores all<br>
> > of my media on two raid5 sets totaling 12 drives that are all attached<br>
> > via sata. These are all attached externally, and that is where my<br>
> > question lies, if I connect these drives incorrectly will my raid sets<br>
> > die, or does it not matter where they are connected since there is some<br>
> > metadata that tells the linux software raid that it belongs to a certain<br>
> > raid set?<br>
><br>
> Yes, Linux software RAID will work regardless of the drive order. Your<br>
> only order concern is the boot drive.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>No, this is not guaranteed. It depends on the distro and how the drives<br>
are referenced. I think more recent distros should work. But I know<br>
for a fact that older ones would not. Like old Redhat versions where I<br>
first cut my teeth on RAID.<br>
<br>
Anyway, just step up to hardware RAID and don't even think about it<br>
anymore.<br>
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