On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 at 14.46.35 +0000, auditodd at comcast.net wrote: > > On 7/14/06, auditodd at comcast.net <auditodd at comcast.net> wrote: > > > My advice though, forget software RAID. Too unstable. > > > I had 3 80Gig drives set up with software RAID5 and we lost > > > power Monday night (yeah I know, I should have had it on a > > > UPS). RAID go bye-bye! :-) A quick Google of the situation > > A couple sites that I found via Google mentioned that software RAID was > still buggy and unreliable (yeah, yeah I know, don't believe everything > your read in forums). I also found the data transfer speed onto the > software RAID to be a bit slow, about half as fast as an FTP or copy > onto a regular Samba shared folder/drive. I copied a 4Gig DVD ISO Maybe that's because RAID 5 costs 50% in write performance regardless of how it's implemented? I've used Linux's software RAID for a while and have had several failures and everything went fine for the most part. One time a SCSI bus got freaked out, but that wasn't the end of the world. -- Sidney CAMMERESI http://www.cheesecake.org/sac/