[Eug-lug] OT: Intel Motherboard forsale

[Ben Barrett]

Hotswap is a fun one -- I haven't worked with it in over 6 months, but
beware the stated "hotswapability" of a drive, cage, etc, compared to the
real capability of the controller, drivers, and OS :)  Newegg has some good
cage deals, I like the one (I forget the brand though) where you can fit 5
3.5" drives vertically (er, sideways/upright) in a 3-drive-bay-tall volume.

So are you planning this hotswap for a linux system, or, "cough, the other
one"?

     Ben


On 12/1/06, badd_karma at comcast.net <badd_karma at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > How do you perceive hardware RAID as better than Linux's software
> > RAID?  Software RAID will work if you move the disks to a different
> > system.  Software RAID uses negligible CPU and memory bandwidth.
> > Software RAID gets regular bug fixes for free when you upgrade
> > your distro.
>
> The system in question is, um cough, not,  cough, running, cough, linux,
> cough, cough. Whew. Who said that?
>
> Anyway.... On Linux I find software raid good for most simple setups and
> it has gotten SO much better than it was in the past. I still occastional=
ly
> have problems with raid 1 arrays, especially when combined with LVM, that
> contain /boot, but most of they time it's fine. I still try to stick with
> true (processor and cache) hardware based raid controllers for raid 5 arr=
ays
> or where I need better monitoring, or where I need super fast performance=
 no
> matter what the system is doing.
>
> When I get a few minutes I'm going to tackle finding a hotswap sata cage
> and getting the whole thing to work... Anybody have an experience with
> hotswap + sata? Comments?
>
> Garl
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