On 05/17 02:30 , Les Mikesell wrote: > On 5/17/2011 2:06 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > My advice is to get a 3ware RAID card and whatever disks you like for it. > > There's some sharp corners on the management interface; but at least it > > *has* a management interface that's consistent and sensible compared to the > > Dell crap I've had to suffer through (on the occasions I could get it to > > work). > > That's good advice for large arrays or more complex raid levels, but > with the current price of disks it is pretty hard to justify compared to > simple mirroring. And I've always liked the fact that in the case of > software raid1 you can recover the data from any single disk connected > to any physically compatible interface even if that's all that is left > of the original setup.
I found it to be a lot easier to deal with booting off a 3ware controller than to reliably get redundant boot records on software RAID. That's the main reason I prefer a hardware RAID controller. As always, YMMV, and it's good to have choices and options. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
