johnwillis
January 6th, 2008, 05:38 PM
Hi guys,
I've got a nice little project I'm working on at my secondary school to see if it's possible to give the same level of service from a Linux based server as we get from a Windows 2003 based server.
Here's where I want your advice. I know what RAID is. I've set it up before using our Adaptec cards, but what I wanted to know if how significant the performance drop is if I used MD raid in Linux over our hardware card.
And also, does anyone know if MD raid can do RAID 5 - I've read it'll do 0,1 and 0+1 but nowhere seems to confirm my question.
If it can't is there anything else I can use that's software based and still offers the same redundancy as RAID 5?
Cheers guys,
John
I've got a nice little project I'm working on at my secondary school to see if it's possible to give the same level of service from a Linux based server as we get from a Windows 2003 based server.
Here's where I want your advice. I know what RAID is. I've set it up before using our Adaptec cards, but what I wanted to know if how significant the performance drop is if I used MD raid in Linux over our hardware card.
And also, does anyone know if MD raid can do RAID 5 - I've read it'll do 0,1 and 0+1 but nowhere seems to confirm my question.
If it can't is there anything else I can use that's software based and still offers the same redundancy as RAID 5?
Cheers guys,
John