Re: [BackupPC-users] Best NAS device to run BackupPC ?
2011-05-17 16:22:52
On 5/17/2011 3:02 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 05/17 02:30 , Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On 5/17/2011 2:06 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
>>> My advice is to get a 3ware RAID card and whatever disks you like for it.
>>> There's some sharp corners on the management interface; but at least it
>>> *has* a management interface that's consistent and sensible compared to the
>>> Dell crap I've had to suffer through (on the occasions I could get it to
>>> work).
>>
>> That's good advice for large arrays or more complex raid levels, but
>> with the current price of disks it is pretty hard to justify compared to
>> simple mirroring. And I've always liked the fact that in the case of
>> software raid1 you can recover the data from any single disk connected
>> to any physically compatible interface even if that's all that is left
>> of the original setup.
>
> I found it to be a lot easier to deal with booting off a 3ware controller
> than to reliably get redundant boot records on software RAID. That's the
> main reason I prefer a hardware RAID controller.
>
> As always, YMMV, and it's good to have choices and options.
Working remotely, that makes sense - getting the grub setup right
depends on how bios handles the 2nd disk when the primary is dead. If
you have hands-on you can always boot a rescue disk and fix it.
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lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com
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