[KLUG Hardware] Re: IDE RAID

[Richard Zimmerman]

> For production servers, I advocate a RAID-1 (or RAID-10) "system" volume
> and a RAID-5 "data" volume.  Swap and temp don't work well on RAID-5.  I
> do this on both my 8-channel 3Ware cards as well as for LVM.  In the
> case of LVM for various OSes, it is just a heck of a lot easier to boot
> a RAID-1 volume than a RAID-5 one.

   I've NEVER dealt with RAID before so if I were to setup a server based on
RAID, would I place /boot /swap and /tmp on Raid 1 and the rest on Raid 5,
right?

   Also, I bought a Promise Fasttrak 100 TX2 RAID card (used). From what
I've been reading here, am I correct it is NOT a True RAID card (as I
originally thought)?

   Thanks in advanced for the clarifications.

   Richard

P.S. Thanks for mentioning www.package2you.com. Pretty interesting stuff on
that website... I've always wanted a duel processor system on the cheap...
Looks like I've found several options for it! :-)*

*I'm not looking for the speed, just gaining the experience of using a duel
processor system.

Richard Zimmerman                                     richard@knbpower.com
System Administrator
K&B Transport, Inc.
Elkhart, Indiana                     Advanced SKYWARN weather spotter

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