It's not necessarily all a bad thing. We used to run a RH5.2 box as
a database server for a 2Gb database. This was really bottlenecked on
drive I/O so I tried software RAID 0. This worked just dandy and the
system looked after us for 2 more years.
I've got to say though that a hardware solution as we have now is far
better if you have the bucks. Our current box has an ICP vortex RAID
controller. (www.icp-vortex.com, dealer www.transtec.co.uk). Not cheap
at UKœ820 but definitely kicks some mean throughput butt.
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Original Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at 2/06/00 12:20
>I would not go with software raid no matter what you do. It is a system
>resource hog beyond your wildest dreams. A raid controller is the way to
>go, but unfortunatly, I've don't know off the top of my head what the
>differences, advantages are between the different cards. Adaptec has been
>a good company though the years, but like I said, I'm not sure about that.
>But don't go for the software raid, it may be cheaper, but you will pay
>for it double with lost performance.
>
>jake
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