Re: Do consumer MBs support RAID 5 standby drive feature in Linux?

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From	Arno <me@privacy.net>
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Subject	Re: Do consumer MBs support RAID 5 standby drive feature in Linux?
Date	19 Jun 2011 02:02:37 GMT
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Nick Mirro <nickmirro@gmail.com> wrote:
> We want to replace an old Debian HP proliant server with Debian (new
> server hardware) using RAID 5.  HP's old server
> bios allows config of an unused standby drive to automatically kick
> in
> if any active drive in the array fails.

> Regular consumer MBs seem to all support RAID 5 but this is not
> documented.  We are thinking of a gigabyte board.  Do these support a
> similar standby drive to be used for automatic recovery of a failed
> RAID 5 array drive?

Don't use hardware or BIOS RAID. It is substandard and slower,
unless you go for the really expensive controllers. Use
Linux software RAID, and yes, it supports hot spares.

Arno
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