begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 01:57:58PM -0800: [snip] > I always recommend software. "Hardware" RAID is really just software > RAID in that it is another cpu running more software. The big problem > with hardware RAID is the drivers. I hate needing special hardware > drivers. Modern cpu's are so fast that doing the work related to the > RAID is insignificant.
If you need special drivers, how can you call it "hardware" RAID? :) I had a bad experience with software RAID on linux, back in the early days, plus I like the idea of lots of little special-purpose processors. Then again, it was a multi-processor Alpha box -- Linux was still fairly new to Linux, and very new, I suspect, to multiprocessor concerns. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
