On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 13:06 +0000, James Rushton wrote: > Hardware raid is better, and if youve got the opportunity to pick it up > then do. Its more reliable, faster, and its 'cleaner' because its all > done nicely for you. Only if you have a "real" controller ... the "onboard raid" solutions are really sucky
> Most motherboards with 'RAID' these days rely significantly on windows > drivers to make them work. They arent really hardware raid. There are > some good cards around though. But then it gets quite expensive. And, once the RAID controller dies, it gets awfully hard to get the data without an identical controller. Software RAID can be dropped in any raid-aware linux box > Im using 3 disk software RAID myself, in a striping configuration. I > havnt noticed any overhead (there will be some but it hasnt leaped out > at me whilst using the system) and it does exactly what it says on the > tin (although I back up regularly!). I have both, and in my opinion hardware RAID is only useful when you really need the performance and/or reliability. For smaller systems software raid is good enough. hth, Patrick
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