"Davide Bianchi" <davideyeahsure@onlyforfun.net> wrote in message
news:slrncufpqu.1sp.davideyeahsure@fogg.onlyforfun .net...
> On 2005-01-14, Steve Wilder <digitaljunkie@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I am going to build a SAMBA File server on a Redhat 9 1GHz 256MB machine.
>> I have three
>> identicle 18 GB SCSI Hard dirves, and a non-RAID SCSI controller.
>
> You also have a problem with your newsreader. Set it to truncate your
> lines around 75 chars please.
>
>> I have some experience with hardware RAID 5. It seems like the RAID
>> array needs to be
>> rebuilt about once or twice a year
>
> What brand was that? WeSuckEggsTroughtAStraw? The only time I had to
> rebuild an hardware raid was when the little bastard caught fire!

Promise controllers. I've had real problems with Promise controllers, their
hardware quality has historically been poor and their Linux support sucks.
3Ware costs a lot more but works extremely well.

>>I'm just wondering if the risks of software RAID are higher than the risks
>>of a SCSI
>> drive failure.
>
> Whatever you do: make backups.

And rethink if RAID is what you want. A cheap external IDE drive can easily
take a nightly complete snapshat of your file system, and be less vulnerable
to accidental user "rm -rf /" commands than a RAID set.