Re: [Hampshire] HP servers and Debian

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Author: Stephen Nelson-Smith
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] HP servers and Debian
Hello,

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Martin A. Brooks
<martin@???> wrote:
> On Mon, August 16, 2010 12:05, Russell Morris wrote:
>> If it's SATA fakeraid, I wouldn't!
>
> He's talking about onboard RAID on a ProLiant serrver.  It won't have a
> lot of cache, and it's not likely to be battery backed, but it will be
> perfectly reasonable otherwise.


The onboard raid on bottom-end HP servers is software-based SATA raid.
As the OP stated he wanted to use Debian, and SATA raid on Lenny is
experimental, and as mdraid is mature and performant, I would
recommend the OP to use mdraid,

S.
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Stephen Nelson-Smith
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Atalanta Systems Ltd
www.atalanta-systems.com