I simply have nothing but trouble trying to get OpenSolaris working with my hardware so Iam tempted to just go hardware raid5 with my LSI 8 port controller and my 1TB WD GP drives but is it very unsafe to do without raid drives rated for 24/7 usages? I would start with 7 drives but would add another in a short time so all my 8 ports are filled.
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Raid5 with none 24/7 drives?
- Thread starter Mech0z
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assume a drive fail in the middle of the nite. are you prepared for that? do u know how u plan to recover?
It's a hit and miss thing based on your usage though. Although, some non RAID drives don't work well with controller cards and controller card makers won't support nonRAID drives... Enterprise drives are also built better.
But yeah, I was going to say, you would learn more by trying to fix it the problem, and u'll be glad of it someday... :-D
plus you'll be glad of the flexibility and freedom from hw controllers later too.
It's a hit and miss thing based on your usage though. Although, some non RAID drives don't work well with controller cards and controller card makers won't support nonRAID drives... Enterprise drives are also built better.
But yeah, I was going to say, you would learn more by trying to fix it the problem, and u'll be glad of it someday... :-D
plus you'll be glad of the flexibility and freedom from hw controllers later too.