[aclug-L] Hardware vs. software RAID, etc

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm building a server that will be using IDE RAID (b/c I can't convince the
owner to use SCSI bleh...)

I'll probably have two 7200rpm 80gb ATA100 drives.  Question is... what sort
of RAID configuration should I use?

Tomshardware suggests that a Promise FastTrak100 TX2 is the fastest IDE
hardware RAID solution (at least of the 3 cards it reviewed).

Is the performance and reliability gained by using hardware RAID enough to
do that instead of Linux's software RAID?

Are there other options I should consider in the same price range?  Other
hardware RAID options?

Thanks.

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