Well, software RAID may be faster for long, sequential writing and
reading, but we don't have very much data going in or out. Some typical
numbers may be 2-3MB/s read and ½-1 MB/s write. The parity calculation
on that is going to be negligible, no matter what solution we choose.
The problem is of course that this data is spread all over the disk, so
seek time is the major bottleneck. I do not know if the performance
hw/sw RAIDs differ significantly in this aspect. With the average RAID
card, replacing a faulty HDD is as simple and error prone as, well,
replacing a HDD when the warning e-mail drops in your inbox. I'd say
that's hard to beat as far as data security goes.
// E23
Jimmy Wales
jwales-at-bomis.com |wikipedia| wrote:
O.k., well, yesterday the other fellow yelled at me
(not really) that
I should be doing software RAID anyway. I *can* get anything overnighted
to me, to be sure. Should I?
Possibly that's the wisest thing to do here.
Gabriel Wicke wrote:
>On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 10:38:00 -0800, Jimmy Wales wrote:
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>>So, I think that's what we should do.
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>When will the replacement controller arrive? If it's adding a day or so
>delay it's propably not worth to bother setting up the soft raid now.
>Should be possible to get one overnight really- i can send stuff from
>Germany to any place in the US overnight, likely to work inside the US
>as well.
>--
>Gabriel Wicke
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