Nice looking 'disk array'

[Mike Kallies]

On 1/29/07, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:25:28AM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
...
> For $800 + $00, I can have the same size raid, but have no clue how it
> works, or how to fix it if it breaks, and it my controller dies, I have
> probably lost my data.  I can't expand it past the 4 disks ever.
>
> I guess I just don't get it. :)  Those poor windows users of course
> don't get software raid for free, so they are forced to spend more money
> on such things, but of course windows users are used to spending money
> to get trivial features (just check the cost of windows vista).

Windows has had software RAID since 1996 in NT 4.

I think all your concerns are valid...  if software RAID is inadequate
for your solution (too many PCI slots lost to separate controllers,
too much overhead, etc.. ) then you have to very carefully research,
understand and trust your hardware.  It's not an easy problem.

Hardware RAID just moves a little more trust on to the hardware side.

-Mike
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