On Monday 02 August 2004 11:06, Per Jessen wrote:
Everything depends on your actual requirements, but in a lot of cases I chose RAID1 over RAID5. The drives are so cheap anyway that mirroring is just easier.
Well, I'm working on a home multi-media system, and the movies (especially the DVDs) are really starting to take their space (I own about 350 original movies + downloading is legal in the Netherlands), so I don't think I could afford to mirror every disk. Hence I was thinking about a (software) RAID setup of 4 or 5 disks (maybe 2 of such arrays). It's also the reason I prefer IDE over SCSI. I checked the SuSE database (thanx for the remembral John Andersen), but couldn't find much info on SuSE 9.1. One controller I really liked was the HightPoint RocketRAID 454, with 4 IDE ports, 8 devices, and hardware RAID-5 support. The corporate website claims SuSE support, but I've learned that that's no guarantee. Anyone have any experience with this device? Regards, Pieter Hulshoff