19 Mar
2004
19 Mar
'04
05:28
John Andersen wrote:
If one insists on mirroring swap its best to get one of those hardware raid controllers which eliminated the need for software raid and often the OS is totally unaware it has a raid. Those things are rally cheap these days ($30) if all you want is raid 1 mirroring.
Those cheap "hardware" RAID controllers are actually semi-software controllers - they rely on the OS's RAID implementation for most of the actual work. If you want true hardware RAID then expect to spend a couple hundred dollars. The 3ware ones seem pretty decent. So having said that, relying on the Linux software RAID implementation does't seem like such a bad idea.