<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Steven Susbauer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steven@too1337.com">steven@too1337.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</div>The key word is "enclosure". There are quite a few hard disk enclosures<br>
on newegg and elsewhere which will either do the raid internally or<br>
present both disks (as JBOD) which you can then use btrfs, lvm, zfs or<br>
other means to use as one large disk.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Haven't tried btrfs, or zfs.</div><div><br></div><div>I build the raid with mdadm, the use lvm on top of the software raid.</div><div><br></div>
<div>I stay away from hardware raid unless it's a really high end raid controller with</div><div>a support contract from the vendor. With software raid recovery after a hardware</div><div>failure is much more certain. With hardware raid you may not be able to recover</div>
<div>unless the new hardware matches the exact model number including version number,</div><div>and firmware version (controller, and all drives). </div><div><br></div><div>With software raid recovery from hardware failures is much more straight forward,</div>
<div>and more likely to succeed.</div><div><br></div><div>I have seen a raid controller go berserk and write garbage on all the drives. </div><div>Raid is not a substitute for backups.</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br>Drew Einhorn<br>
<br>"You can see a lot by just looking." <br> -- Yogi Berra<br>