On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 01:08:38AM -0800, John Andersen wrote:
On Monday 02 August 2004 03:48 am, Louis Richards wrote:
I would buy two additional IDE cards so each drive is by itself on a channel. I always mirror boot and swap. The rest can be RAID 5.
Actually that's not totally necessary, as long as two drives in the SAME Array do not share a controller.
So if he was planning two arrays anyway, he could use all of the Masters in one array, and all the slaves in the other array.
(make sure the newer/larger/faster disks are masters and older/smaller/slower disks are slaves.
The current idea is as follows (using a HPT 454 PCI card, 4 channels, 8 devices): M S IDE1 OS DVD IDE2 MD0 HPT1 MD0 HPT2 MD0 HPT3 MD0 HPT4 MD0 leaving 5 slave ports for a later extention (where I will most likely switch the old array to the slaves, and place the newer (bigger) drives to the masters). Comments? Regards, Pieter Hulshoff