quick raid question

[Korialstrasza]

Hey, I'm pretty new to this so I'm just curious as to the best way of doing this.

I have 2 seagate 120gb IDE running in a fedora C3 box as a fileserver. I'd like to mirror the hdds, but how should I do that. I have a cheap SYBA PCI card with RAID 0,1,0+1. Or should I go with software like here and forget the SYBA card? http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html

Also, I put the hds into a raid1 set, but when i tried to install fedora onto it, I got an exception error when it began to install the OS. Should I ditch that and just go with the software?

thanks in advance,
korialstrasza

 

[gerbiaNem]

Doesn't linux only run with software raid? I'm pretty sure linux doesn't support the hardware alternatives.

 

[DougLite]

There is an ATA raid subsystem for Linux that can be used for controllers that are not full blown hardware accelerated RAID units. I am unable to comment on performance of this implementation as I've never used it (there was a thread that had some info on it awhile back), but it sounds like the security of the data is more important than throughput. Stay away from RAID-5 of any sort on a C3 system - the parity calcs will eat your CPU alive. I'd stick with software RAID-1 mirroring here.

 

[Korialstrasza]

how's that possible? don't webhosts use raid in their systems along with linux?

edit: you posted right before me