[lug] RAID Controller Recommendations

[Glenn English]

On Sep 18, 2014, at 4:44 PM, George Sexton <georges at mhsoftware.com> wrote:

> In the early days I remember having a server tank because one of the drives failed.

I had a drive fail. It's been a while, but IIRC, I got email about it from the software, and the server kept on going. I got a new drive, told mdadm the failed drive was going away, installed the replacement, told mdadm the drive was back, and the software rebuilt the array. 

> I was not impressed.

I was. But when it happened to me, mdadm had been around for a few years.

> I guess my current heartache is having to run obscure, poorly documented commands to manage the array after a failure. 3ware provides a manager app that has a web interface that makes it kind of easy. When you're doing something as terrifying as saying yes, I want to remove this drive, it's nice to have training wheels.

Yup. There's no GUI. But take a look at 'man mdadm'. The it's not poorly documented anymore.

Give it a try before you spend big bucks on a card.

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Glenn English