On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:28:17AM -0400, Christopher Meadors wrote: > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 10:20 -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote: > > > > > ... and if you buy a spare hardware raid controller of *every type you have > > in use*. > > > > That's the main disadvantage of hardware raid over software raid - if the > > controller dies, you're dead in the water unless you have a spare that's > > exactly the same type. With software raid, if the controller or box die, you > > just stick the disks in another box and you're on your way. > > That depends on the controller, a lot of recent ones are using the Linux > on-disk format. So if the controller fails you can just throw the disks > in a Linux machine and still have access to your data.
Examples please. This is interesting. I've yet to encounter a hw-raid controller that did not do proprietary - and model-specific - formatting of its drives. Thanks, Ward. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
