DIY NAS question for the *nix experts
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The Natural Philosopher writes:
Linux will do some sort of RAID without need for a raid hardware solution.
This chipset isn't hardware RAID - its BIOS has minimal support to allow
the PC BIOS to boot from a RAID set. Once the OS takes over from the
BIOS i/o functions, the OS needs a driver to perform the RAID function.
The RAID management data is all proprietary as far as I know - at least,
they didn't publish it ~10 years ago when we were testing this chipset,
so if you use the BIOS RAID feature to boot from a RAID set, you have to
use their OS drivers.
But I question the value of RAID versus say a simple mirror the
important software on a nightly basis...
Depends what data availability you need. The cost of mirroring is worth
it for me - if a disk dies in the middle of my work, I don't have to
stop work and go and fix it.
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Andrew Gabriel
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