Nice looking 'disk array'

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:42:24PM -0500, Byron Sonne wrote:
> IMO, hardware raid is a better performer and more reliable. When it's
> hardware that's where the real advantages come in.

My experience has been that software raid performed a lot better (maybe
the hardware raid cards weren't very good).  It is certainly easier to
manage hardware raid in terms of booting and such, but not much else.

Reliability is probably also identical.  Easier to fix software raid
than to get bugs in raid controller firmware fixed too.  Linux software
raid also has a lot more testing and a larger user base, than any
hardware raid platform will ever have.

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Len Sorensen
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