On Dec 15, 2007, at 11:52 PM, James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Not necessarily, these days. There are lots of hardware raid
implementations on cards that are (say) under $1K. I'm fuzzy on this
but
don't even (some of) the on-board raids provide a boot-time
configuration interface.
Search for "raid enclosure" on newegg.com and you'll get (at current
count) 55 external boxes that hook up to a well defined interface
(which should please Stewart) that take two or more disks and RAID
them up in some or another fashion. All without requiring "RAID"
drivers in the OS.
Gregory
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