>>>>> "Steven" == Steven Lembark <lembark@wrkhors.com> writes: Steven> You're nearly always better off using hardware RAID for the Steven> simple reason that a kernel glitch is that much less likely to Steven> blow off your storage. Software Raid is better, you have more control over things. Right now I'm fighting a HW Raid controller on a Sun box which will only rebuild one mirror pair at a time, even if I don't care what impact that will have on my data access, since my data is toast right now anyway. With software raid, I can do rebuilds as fast as my CPU can controllers can push the data, which is alot faster than currently. In their time, HW RAID was a good idea. These days, Moore's law has caught up with such a vengeance that it's not worth doing anymore. John John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent Technologies stoffel@lucent.com - http://www.lucent.com - 978-399-0479
