[Asterisk-Users] Re: What is the best Dell Machine for Asterisk?

[Craig Guy]

Are you using raid for performance or redundancy?  Software raid is nice 
except when the drive that fails is the one with your boot partition on it. 
I guess you could always tftp boot the kernel or something.

Craig

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Louis-David Mitterrand" <vindex+lists-asterisk-users at apartia.org>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 1:17 AM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: What is the best Dell Machine for Asterisk?


> On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 04:02:00PM -0800, William Boehlke wrote:
>>
>> The 830s are nice but limited because they do RAID on a card and have but
>> one suitable PCI slot. So you can have an interface card or RAID, but not
>> both.
>
> Linux software raid is, in our experience, much better than any hardware
> raid solution. We admin 20+ machines all booting on soft raid 1 or 5
> partitions up to 2 TB.
>
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