CentOS - Sep 2006 - Hardware or Software RAID w/CentOS 4.4 & Gigabyte GA-81945GZME-RH motherboard

Hi all,

Helping a friend setup a new machine - it will be a low volume web and 
mail server. He wants to set it up with 2 drives in a mirror setup. The 
motherboard he bought supports mirroring on the hardware level.

I have heard of issues before using hardware raid on Linux systems. 
Which way would you recommend we go on this?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Dale

Never mind - turns out his motherboard doesn't support hardware raid 
after all :(

Dale wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Helping a friend setup a new machine - it will be a low volume web and 
> mail server. He wants to set it up with 2 drives in a mirror setup. 
> The motherboard he bought supports mirroring on the hardware level.
>
> I have heard of issues before using hardware raid on Linux systems. 
> Which way would you recommend we go on this?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Dale
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On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 13:53, Dale wrote:
> Helping a friend setup a new machine - it will be a low volume web and 
> mail server. He wants to set it up with 2 drives in a mirror setup. The 
> motherboard he bought supports mirroring on the hardware level.
> 
> I have heard of issues before using hardware raid on Linux systems. 
> Which way would you recommend we go on this?
The cheap versions of hardware raid really do the work in
software in the driver.  I'd prefer Linux software raid
(md devices) over that, simply because you can swap either
or both disks into a different machine and use it without
needing a matching controller.  If the controller has its
own CPU I'd probably use hardware raid, although it is 
still a toss-up for RAID1 since simple mirrors don't add
a lot of overhead.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com