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Software raid is quite doable, and I have done a lot of it, but you had
better know exactly what you're doing when it has a problem.  Plus it's
much more likely to have a problem since it depends on the system properly
shutting down to prevent data corruption (you think fsck takes a long
time? try chkraid)

My vote is definatly hardware raid with the IDE drives rather than
software raid with scsi, you'll get more space for your dollar, hardware
raid works a lot smoother with no software configs to worry about, and
raid 1 will help the performance of the IDE drives (mainly on reads).

Really it all depends on what you want to do with it, what are the goals?
There's a lot that can be done that affect the basic paramenters of price,
speed, space, reliability, and ease of recovery.

	--Nick

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Craig White wrote:

> Philosophical question
> Budget $500 - Raid level 1 intended
>
>  - 2 IBM UltraStar 18.1G Ultra2SCSI, computer has AIC7880 embedded
> controller but also has CD & Python Tape on it. Software raid (package?)
>
> 0r
>
>  - 2 Western Digital 30G UDMA with Promise ATA/66 Raid controller
>
> Craig
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