On 2003-06-27T14:43:23,
Gordon Henderson <gordon@drogon.net> said:
> > project I'm working on at the moment. It's either an older card, or
> > software RAID1 (and, with all due respect, I don't want to use linux
> > software raid in -this sort- of production environment).
> Er.. Why not?
Because the software RAID doesn't take care of problems like hotswap for
one.
That's about the only compelling reason for specialized hardware I can
really think of, but it's a good one.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
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