[ale] raid hardware

[Geoffrey]

Transam wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 09:23:51AM -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>So, I'm looking at purchasing a new box and was hoping to get input on 
>>the available raid hardware.  Monarch has the following:
> 
> 
>>3Ware Escalade 8506-4LP 4-port SATA RAID PCI
>>3Ware Escalade 8500-12 Serial ATA RAID
>>3Ware Escalade 8506-8 Serial ATA RAID
>>High Point RocketRAID 1520 Dual Channel PCI to SATA RAID Controller
>>Intel Serial ATA (SRCS14L) RAID Controller
> 
> A friend used a RAID card; I don't know which one.  The card went down
> in flames and so did his data.  No backup, of course, because it's RAID.

What do you mean, no backup?  You mean no way to retrieve the data from 
the drive because the card was gone?  If he had been doing regular 
backups, he'd been able to recover right?  What about replacing the card?

> I'm inclined to use software RAID unless you're looking for very
> high performance.

That's all I'm looking for really.

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