On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 05:22:02PM -0500, J wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 16:52, Scott <scottro@nyc.
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>
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> >> OTOH, for low end, non-mission critical servers, a decent PCI raid
> >> card that works is not terribly expensive either...
> >>
> >> http://www.google.
> >> of those would probably work...
> >
> > Aren't those also host RAID? Why would they probably work?
>
> I think you're confusing two different things... HostRAID is an
> Adaptec creature... think neutered RAID chipset soldered to the
> motherboard, very similar to what happens to video cards on laptops,
> or maybe even more apropos the difference between hardware modems and
> software modems.
Ok, I've always referred to them interchangeably, that is, a cheap RAID,
whether MB or PCI, that relied on the O/S.
>
> The caveat though, is that
> with most, if not all, onboard RAID devices, you get a subset of
> functions, mostly you get RAID-0 and RAID-1 only... MAYBE you'll get
> RAID-10, and MAYBE RAID-5 for the higher end devices...
For these machines, simple RAID-1 is fine.
>
> Time to go home and give my wife her birthday surprise...
Let us know how she liked it.
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