I've used the mirroring in windows 2003 many times without issues. For third party raid, historically I've gone with 3ware. But I haven't bought a card in years. I would also look at Areca: http://www.areca.com.tw/
Unless I really need performance, I'll always use linux md raid first. As for booting off software raid... On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Anton Cohen <[email protected]> wrote: >> So, your solution is manual intervention? At home, fine. Not usually >> the case at $work. > > > No manual intervention required. The BIOS should be set to boot from ALL > drives of the mirror, it tries booting from each drive, if one has fails it > moves on to the next. The only edge case this fails is if a drive has a > valid bootloader in the MBR but has a missing/corrupt OS. You can also set grub to failover its boot order - so if one disk is working enough for grub, but grub fails to find the kernel, grub can look for the kernel on disk 2 automatically. -- Steven Kurylo _______________________________________________ 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/
