RAID on Tyan Tomcat K8E

[Ashley Moran]

On Friday 24 February 2006 16:49, Ken Gunderson wrote:
> I have a couple of these systems.  Why would you want to use the POS
> onboard RAID to set up a mirror when there's gmirror;-)

Do you really think so little of on-board RAID?  Is it that board in 
particular, or on-board RAID in general?  I feel safer somehow with anything 
hardware based as opposed to pure software solutions.  Maybe my faith is 
misplaced...

I have to admit I had spontaneous disk corruption recently on a server using 
motherboard RAID on an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (Athlon64 but in i386 mode).  
The disks appear to be fine so it looks like the RAID controller went postal.  
I've replaced the board with an Asus A8V Deluxe (which also helps as it runs 
in amd64 mode) and the RAID seems fine now but I'll be watching it closely.

We're just about to order a batch of new servers and I was asking if the RAID 
works on the K8E to save us £100 or so.  But network admin lad next to me 
says he wouldn't risk it and we're better with the 3ware 8006-2 card so we 
will probably go with that.

No chances on the database servers though: ARC-1120s RAID-6 in each :D

Ashley