Garl Grigsby wrote:
> Now for the story. I recently ordered parts for a new system from Newegg
> [2]. It wasn't until the motherboard was installed in the case and I was
> in the bios that I realized that I had ordered the wrong board (no raid
> controller). Apparently, in my haste I filtered for ICH8 south bridge
> chipsets instead of ICH8R. Guess what the 'R' stands for..... The total
> amount of time the system was powered on was less than 10 mins.
How do you perceive hardware RAID as better than Linux's software
RAID? Software RAID will work if you move the disks to a different
system. Software RAID uses negligible CPU and memory bandwidth.
Software RAID gets regular bug fixes for free when you upgrade
your distro.
--
Bob Miller K<bob>
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