[TriLUG] SATA and Linux RAID

[Warren Myers]

If you're running a motherboard that supports it, I'd go for RAID through 
the BIOS. The nVidia nForce 4 chipsets have a nice RAID feature, that will 
even extend across the SATA, SATA II, and IDE channels.

WMM

On 7/22/05, Dean Price <deano at price4.org> wrote:
> 
> I am preparing to build a Linux SMB file server
> 
> the OS will go on the IDE drive
> two 250GB SATA drives will be used for the data
> 
> The shop this box is going into will be closed (no work) over night.
> 
> My question is this
> 
> Would it be best ( more effiecient ) to create a linux raid mirror with
> the two drives.
> 
> or
> 
> set the drives up static (sda1 and sdb1) and create a cron job the will
> dd sda to sdb.
> 
> Thoughts and comments please.
> 
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> Thank You,
> Dean Price
> deano at price4.org
> 
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