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J.Clarke
On 12 Oct 2003 21:30:07 -0700
Linux has native RAID 1 support.
Linux has native RAID 1 support.
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EC
Hi all!
The last PC I bought was a few years ago so I'm not in sync with
hardware capabilities today.
I want to buy a new PC with SATA or EIDE but I want to have two hard
drives so I can have RAID 1 type backups where both drives are written
to simultaneously - if one drive fails, the other is mirrored and no
data is lost. I've had my share of hard drive losses and I don't want
to worry about backups other than that which happens simultaneously.
I was looking at an Intel D865GBFL mobo and it has 2 SATA connectors.
Will the mobo software allow me to do this without additional
hardware/software? Or do I have to buy some additional
hardware/software to do this? The cheapest solution is best but would
be up for hearing what you all suggest please.
The only variable is that I will be running Linux on the box so any
solutions will have to take this into account.
Thanks!!
EC
The last PC I bought was a few years ago so I'm not in sync with
hardware capabilities today.
I want to buy a new PC with SATA or EIDE but I want to have two hard
drives so I can have RAID 1 type backups where both drives are written
to simultaneously - if one drive fails, the other is mirrored and no
data is lost. I've had my share of hard drive losses and I don't want
to worry about backups other than that which happens simultaneously.
I was looking at an Intel D865GBFL mobo and it has 2 SATA connectors.
Will the mobo software allow me to do this without additional
hardware/software? Or do I have to buy some additional
hardware/software to do this? The cheapest solution is best but would
be up for hearing what you all suggest please.
The only variable is that I will be running Linux on the box so any
solutions will have to take this into account.
Thanks!!
EC
R
Rod Speed
The last PC I bought was a few years ago so
I'm not in sync with hardware capabilities today.
I want to buy a new PC with SATA or EIDE but I want to have two hard
drives so I can have RAID 1 type backups where both drives are written
to simultaneously - if one drive fails, the other is mirrored and no
data is lost. I've had my share of hard drive losses and I don't want
to worry about backups other than that which happens simultaneously.
That will only protect you against one type of single drive failure.
It wont protect you if the power supply frys both drives at once.
And it wont protect you against the drive contents getting screwed
by something getting stuffed up at the OS level, or a virus etc.
You should still backup the stuff you'll slash your wrists if you
lose to CDRs even if you have to buy a burner to do that.
I was looking at an Intel D865GBFL mobo and it has
2 SATA connectors. Will the mobo software allow me
to do this without additional hardware/software?
Or do I have to buy some additional
hardware/software to do this?
The cheapest solution is best but would be
up for hearing what you all suggest please.
The only variable is that I will be running Linux on the
box so any solutions will have to take this into account.
Should be fine.
R
Rossz
It wont protect you if the power supply frys both drives at once.
This happened to me a few weeks ago. The power supply blew and both drives
went with it. Damn annoying that I lost tons of data because they didn't
bother to include a 50 cent part in the drive design.
I'll be getting a USB 2.0 DVD burner for backups when I replace my
equipment.