[PLUG] Heterogeneous RAID on a Compaq 1800R

Wil Cooley wcooley at nakedape.cc
Wed Nov 10 15:47:03 UTC 2004


Also Sprach Steve Beattie <steve at wirex.net> on Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 11:21:14PM PST:
 
> Eh wot? Hardware controllers certainly exist that support RAID 1+0;
> controlling partitions versus the whole disk doesn't affect that.  Whether
> his hardware does or not all depends on the quality of the RAID chipset.
> Mind you, I find software RAID to be more flexible to use and administer.

Hmm... yeah.  I wasn't thinking of 1+0; I was thinking of doing 5 across
4 9-G partitions.  1+0 would only give him 18G; 5 would give him 27G and
a hot spare.

Wil
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