[TriLUG] IDE RAID vs. md

[Joseph Tate]

The only IDE raid cards that are worth purchasing are the 3ware cards.  
All other cards do essentially software RAID, but use a proprietary driver.

Ken Mink wrote:

>Hello All,
>  I recently purchased a pair of 120gb drives to use as a mirrored pair
>in my server at home. As I've taken more and more digital photographs,
>the fear of what my wife would do to me if the drive they're stored on
>crashed got me thinking about protecting the data. The machine is
>older(aren't all of our home servers?) and doesn't have a motherboard
>with a RAID controller. I have used md in the past and don't have a
>problem with using it here. The machine does not see heavy use, there's
>only the two of us. So my question is, should I purchase a IDE RAID
>controller and if so, which one, or is md okay? Oh yeah, these would be
>the only drives in the machine and it's running rh7.3.
>
>TIA,
>Ken
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