There are 2 ways to go, both involve the ability to hot-swap drives.
So hardware wise, you'll still need hot-swap bays and drives.
Most 80pin SCA drives are this way, and fibrechannel drives also.
Secondly, the choice to make next is hardware or software raid. Hardware
raid is nice because the OS handles less, or none, of the burden of
rebuilding the array should a failure occurr.
If cost is a factor however, you're best bet is software raid. MD
Devices. Either RAID1, 0/1, or RAID5.
On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 14:51, Eric Peters wrote:
> I'm following this thread with great interest, what hardware
> configuration
> would any of you recommend for this type of hot swap and go system - I
> want to be able and have some data redundancy for a couple of web
> servers
> I have at the harddrive level - where I could swap out a bad disk and
> still have the server reving - gradually rebuilding the replaced
> mirror/or parity
> drive/etc
>
> Thanks!
>
> Eric
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