Re: Re: RAID recommendations?

[Andy Davies <dajdavies@xxxxxxxxx>]

How about these for hot-pluggable caddies?

http://www.span.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=28_1201_1253

Andy

Paul Gordon wrote:

>Thanks Noel, will take a look...
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>No luck on the caddies yet, - still concentrating on the controller
options at the moment....
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>Paul G.
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>________________________________
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>From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx on behalf of noel_pilot
>Sent: Fri 16/09/2005 12:43
>To: UKHA_D Group
>Subject: [ukha_d] Re: RAID recommendations?
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>Hi Paul,
>Im looking at something very similar, this highpoint card looks like
>it may just do the job.
>review here...  http://www.tweaktown.com/document.php?dType=review&dId=716
>hth
>Noel
>p.s. any luck findding decent cheapish sata caddies??
>
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>--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Paul Gordon" <paul@p...> wrote:
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>>Thanks, but I should have probably made clear that for various
>>
>>
>reasons (NONE of which are anything to do with any kind of
>*NIX/Windows zealotry), in this particular instance the storage server
>would definately be a windows box, - most likely XP MCE... (but
>possibly 2003 server)
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>>But OS choices aside, at the moment I'm more interested in
narrowing
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>down my hardware choices... - there are quite a few suitable cards
>available from the likes of Promise/Highpoint and others, with prices
>ranging from £50-odd to £300-odd
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>>One that I'm giving serious consideration to at the moment is the
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>Highpoint RocketRaid RR1820A 8Ch SATA Raid Adaptor, which can be had
>for about £160 delivered...
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>>This has the following features that I'm attracted to...
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>>8 SATA ports - I can add a few drives now, and have expansion
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>capability later as/when I need
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>>PCI  *and*  PCI-X compatible (so I can use my current m/board with
a
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>PCI slot, but have an upgrade path to a PCI-X slot later)
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>>Arrays can be expanded by adding more drives (without data loss I
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>believe)
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>>Has a "gigabyte boundary" feature so that drives of very
slightly
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>different sizes can be mixed in an array with minimal loss of capacity
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>>Reasonable price!
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>>BUT!!!
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>>I have had bad experiences in the past with Highpoint controllers
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>(embedded motherboard ones that is), and I know a few other people
>have in the past as well... - however, it may well be the case that
>things have improved since I last used a Highpoint controller, so what
>I'm really most interested in is personal experiences (good or bad),
>that might help sway my decision...
>
>
>>Cheers.
>>
>>Paul G.
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>>
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>>________________________________
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>>From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx on behalf of David Greaves
>>Sent: Thu 15/09/2005 19:56
>>To: UKHA_D Group
>>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] RAID recommendations?
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>>
>>If it's a dedicated box for personal use as a server then consider
linux
>>and sw raid.
>>
>>You get excellent managment (mdadm or EVMS), great performance and
you
>>can use commodity (none-accelerated) cards, mix IDE, SATA (and, god
>>forbid, even USB or remote drives in a push!). RAID 0,1,5,6,10 and
many
>>other combinations.
>>
>>You can run Samba to share with other systems and have excellent
>>web-based admin.
>>
>>A big benefit over HW raid is that if the card dies in a couple (or
5)
>>years and is not made anymore then you're not toasted! (and this
happens
>>more than you may expect!). You can also migrate over to larger
drives
>>and/or faster controller cards. You can upgrade the motherboard
>>underneath to say an AMD64 with whatever super IO exists in a few
years
>>and it will all just carry on working.
>>
>>I run a 1.2Tb raid5 system with 6x250Gb SATA and a 250Gb PATA as a
hot
>>spare (started life as a 4 disk PATA BTW). It runs on an old
1200Mhz
>>machine and provides plenty of performance for editing multi-Gb
video
>>files whilst reading and writing multiple TV programmes.
>>
>>Sure I couldn't run a cable head-end from it but!!!
>>
>>If you want to know more then just ask.
>>
>>David
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>>Paul Gordon wrote:
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>>>Is anyone actually using an IDE or SATA RAID card?
>>>
>>>Looking around, I see an increasing number of choices appearing
now, -
>>>many more cards support more advanced RAID modes than was the
case a
>>>year or so ago, and prices seem to have dropped quite a bit as
well.
>>>
>>>Knowing that my DVD server is going to run out of storage in a
few
>>>months, I'm intending to rebuild my whole storage solution, and
this
>>>time I plan to do it "properly"
>>>
>>>a NAS solution like the Buffalo Terrastation will be in the
running as
>>>well, but I also want to look at a traditional storage server
as well,
>>>- since I think this may offer me more flexibility...
>>>
>>>So I am looking for personal recommendations for RAID
controllers...
>>>
>>>- I'll consider either IDE or SATA - but I'd prefer to make the
switch
>>>to SATA now... (or SATA-2 for that matter)
>>>- I'll consider either PCI or PCIe cards, - PCIe would require
>>>purchasing a new motherboard as well to support it, but if
that's what
>>>it takes, then so be it...
>>>- I'd prefer cards that support at least 4 drives, more are
fine, but
>>>don't wan't to use 2-port SATA cards really...
>>>- Not too bothered about the price (shock!) - I'm prepared to
pay good
>>>money if the features, quality & reliability justifies it,
- but
>>>within limits... - above £200-£300 is probably getting into
silly
>>>money territory for this excercise...
>>>- RAID 5 support is a must.
>>>- Controllers that allow for array expansion in the future
would be
>>>preferred, - either by upgrading to larger drives, or by
allowing an
>>>array to span across more than 1 card... (although an 8-port
card will
>>>probably see me right for quite a while!)
>>>- Hot spare support would be nice, but not essential, - if/when
a
>>>drive fails, I don't have a problem having to replace it
myself...
>>>
>>>
>>>Also looking for recommendations for hot-pluggable SATA
caddies....
>>>
>>>Note, - I've already searched around and found plenty of
controllers
>>>that I could choose, - what I am after now is personal
experiences and
>>>recommendations...
>>>
>>>TIA
>>>
>>>Paul G.
>>>
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