Bob Gustafson wrote: : > There has been discussions about whether hardware or software RAID is > the 'best'. In my own systems, I have switched away from hardware RAID > as it seemed to be machine specific - i.e., if bad things happen, it is > difficult to mount half of a bad RAID1 array on another machine to > recover the data. With software RAID, hardware compatibility issues in > the case of a crash are not as severe.
In general, I also favor software RAID. In this particular case, however, the original poster was quite specific. RAID1--basic mirroring--can be done quite efficiently in hardware and if one drive goes bad the other drive provides exactly the same image that the RAID1 pair would provide. It can also be accessed directly, without RAID hardware. As someone else stated, the software (OS, etc.) has no idea if there is one drive or two. Chris -)----- -- "Implementing CIFS - the Common Internet FileSystem" ISBN: 013047116X Samba Team -- http://www.samba.org/ -)----- Christopher R. Hertel jCIFS Team -- http://jcifs.samba.org/ -)----- ubiqx development, uninq. ubiqx Team -- http://www.ubiqx.org/ -)----- [email protected] OnLineBook -- http://ubiqx.org/cifs/ -)----- [email protected] _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
