| Doug Stewart on 4 Jan 2011 05:37:28 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Two-Drive Software Raid 5? |
Why not create a RAID1 device with LVM over top, if redundancy AND expandability are your goals? -- Doug Stewart On Jan 3, 2011, at 10:38 PM, Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> wrote: >> Has anybody had much experience with using linux software raid (mdadm) >> to set up a two-drive raid5? > > Hate to self-reply, but I'd like to toss in another question: > > Is it a given that modern SATA drives still support 1.5Gb/s? Or, do I > need to make sure the drive supports this or has a jumper? The > motherboard this is going onto only has SATA-1.5. (Replacing those > drives was actually step 1 towards upgrading it eventually anyway... > I needed to take it one step at a time since half the drives in there > are PATA and good luck finding a motherboard that supports 4 of those > plus 4+ SATA like the old one...) > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug