On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 07:57:43AM -0500, Alex Turner wrote:
The problem I see with software raid is the issue of a battery backed unit: If the computer loses power, then the 'cache' which is held in system memory, goes away, and fubars your RAID.
Since the Adaptec doesn't have a BBU, it's a lateral move. Also, this is less an issue of data integrity than performance; you can get exactly the same level of integrity, you just have to wait for the data to sync to disk. If you're read-mostly that's irrelevant.
Mike Stone
