Re: [gentoo-user] OT SATA card recommendations

2006-07-17 Thread Bryan Whitehead
You might want take a look at your numbers again. Using 500GB SATA disks or bigger means you don't need such expensive raid cards (or multiple raid cards)... Also, you have fewer moving parts to break. On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Mike Williams wrote: Hey, In the next month or so I wish/need to ma

[gentoo-user] OT SATA card recommendations

2006-07-17 Thread Mike Williams
Hey, In the next month or so I wish/need to make some storage modifications, I'm running out of space, quickly. Currently it's a horrible hodge podge of 2 RAID5s in one VG, and 1 RAID10 in another VG. 1 of 3 is PATA other 2 SATA (RAID5), 5 of 5 SATA (RAID5), and 4 of 4 PATA (RAID10), 1 of 1 PAT