Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:45:37 +0000 From: Ashley Moran <work@ashleymoran.me.uk> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID on Tyan Tomcat K8E Message-ID: <200602241745.37259.work@ashleymoran.me.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060224094910.5c51d1bd.kgunders@teamcool.net> References: <200602241129.02374.work@ashleymoran.me.uk> <20060224094910.5c51d1bd.kgunders@teamcool.net>
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On Friday 24 February 2006 16:49, Ken Gunderson wrote: > I have a couple of these systems. =A0Why would you want to use the POS > onboard RAID to set up a mirror when there's gmirror;-) Do you really think so little of on-board RAID? Is it that board in=20 particular, or on-board RAID in general? I feel safer somehow with anythin= g=20 hardware based as opposed to pure software solutions. Maybe my faith is=20 misplaced... I have to admit I had spontaneous disk corruption recently on a server usin= g=20 motherboard RAID on an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (Athlon64 but in i386 mode). = =20 The disks appear to be fine so it looks like the RAID controller went posta= l. =20 I've replaced the board with an Asus A8V Deluxe (which also helps as it run= s=20 in amd64 mode) and the RAID seems fine now but I'll be watching it closely. We're just about to order a batch of new servers and I was asking if the RA= ID=20 works on the K8E to save us =A3100 or so. But network admin lad next to me= =20 says he wouldn't risk it and we're better with the 3ware 8006-2 card so we= =20 will probably go with that. No chances on the database servers though: ARC-1120s RAID-6 in each :D Ashley
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