IDE RAID

[JamieJamie]

Has anyone here had experience with IDE RAID? Also, are they are reliable as SCSI RAID?

 

[anime]

depends on what RAID lvl are u running?
Raid 0 does not provide any redundancy at all-so if one hard drive fail--you data are gone.
Raid 1 offer basic mirroring that does provide some data redundancy with a little overhead.

SCSI RAID5 is the best you can get for data security and redundancy. And also the most expensive setup. The card itself is costing more than $1000 bucks to start with (i think).

 

[JamieJamie]

yes I am switching from RAID 5, because that is too expensive, I was just wondering if this could be just as good.

 

[ChrisIsBored]

There are several SCSI cards that will cost between $400-700 so $100 is a bit more high end than needed on a home workstation or any average system. I'm sure if you look in the FS forums you can find some cheaper sometimes as well.

 

[JamieJamie]

it's for hosting co.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

thank god i host my own site :Q

 

[anime]

i think there are some ide raid4 or 5 card. I think they are as reliable as scsi -but maybe dont have throughput like the espensive scsi raid.
For non-critical site--any setup will do imho. Raid 1 will be minimum i think for hosting kindda environment.