Having recently played with Windows mirroring (dynamic disks) and Intel Matrix RAID....
I find myself interested in a Hardware RAID solution for my own system. Seems every few months I have a lock up, that requires the Matrix RAID set to get initialized again. Have had to use image backups to recover a couple times last year. So, what options are out there for a Windows 7 system? I think I only have an x1 slot open though. Meanwhile, at work...the thought on RAID goes back and forth....used to be we did software mirroring on Solaris (VxVM), and hardware mirroring on Linux (Dell/PERC). Though then, we went hardware mirror on Solaris....though go through some firmware updates and motherboard replacements...and the full love for ZFS....the shift is to do software mirroring on Solaris now. Not sure about PERC...it seemed okay in the past dealings, though recently we've lost a lot of systems recently. Though I don't know anything about those systems, so it could be how they got setup or taken care of. And, discussion is that we should do software mirroring for Linux now. Though my co-workers talk like its never been possible, and they don't know how it might get done. The only system that had software mirroring in our datacenter has since been retired, but I was the one that set it up (repurposed whitebox system)...but I used to do software raid on Linux servers in a previous life. I also do it lots at home. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
