[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and software Raid

[Chris]

> Odd, I have absolutely *zero* issues with Promise PATA cards...  I use
> strictly software RAID on both SCSI and IDE on Linux 2.4.  Never had
issues
> with the kernel failing due to I/O load on rebuild or dealing with failed
> drives.
>
> Note: You can easily throttle the I/O bandwidth used for rebuilding
> through /proc.  I've never had to do it though.
>
> Now mind you all I do is software RAID1.  I don't do RAID5.  I typically
buy
> drives in pairs and then use LVM to give me a big "blob" of storage and
> partition it up as I see fit with logical volumes.  The largest (# of
drives)
> array I have is an 8-drive array, with 6 in pairs and ganged together for
> about 300G and then a separate RAID0 on a pair of old IBM DeathStar drives
> for my temporary data area for MythTv.  This is all on a cheapass Pentium3
> system.  No issues even when running in degraded mode.
>
> -A.

I've got 2 Promise PATA-133 in a raid 0, 4 disks 1 per channel giving me >
70MB/Sec sustained on 64-bit PCI... Not one problem so far running this
setup for over a year in a production environment