3ware raid cards, CCD and Raid advice
Jason Stout
new to all of this I could really use some advice from those who have
been there before.
The goal.... I'm trying to create a storage solution for an
ftp site I'm building somewhere in the range of 250-320GB. The major
goal I'm trying to reach is high storage and low cost. Redundancy is
not a big issue. It would be nice, but I need this pretty cheap.
I read through the archives as well as the supported hardware. Judging
from what I read confidence and support of CCD is generally lacking.
Has this changed recently? Even if it has I think I personally would
be much more confortable with a hardware solution.
In comes the 3ware cards. The HCL says they are supported (even got a
nice man page for it).
The plan.... I think the best way for me to go is 4x 80GB Maxtor
drives running at Raid 0. Seeing as how I don't really care about
redundancy I'll only be using the card to concatenate the disk. Sure
the striping is a bonus.
The questions...
Is there a better solution for doing this? All I really need is to
concatenate the drives into one logical drive.
Are there any issues with using an additional SCSI card? The 3Ware
cards report the raid array as 1 logical SCSI disk. Maybe I'm not
thinking along the right lines but, would this affect a tape drive
hooked up to a different SCSI card?
Am I just bieng stupid using 4 brand new, just released 80GB maxtors
in a Raid 0 setup?
Has anyone had any issues other than those listed in the man page with
the 3ware cards? Specifically the Escalade 6400
Any other advice or criticisms?
Thanks in advance,
Jason Stout
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