The 3Ware is a very good hardware RAID device.On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 12:03:46PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote: > hi, > we've got a server with 3ware 7500-8 and 8 pieces of 120 GB maxtor hd > and software raid-5. the 1TB disk is running out of the space so we
Are you sure about the Software RAID on this 3ware adapater?? I was under the impression it's a HW Raid adapter? (I have a preference to HW RAID if available...)
That is irrelevant in this context.
One of the many advantages of software RAID is the ability to use multiple controllers in separate PCI slots ( and in many cases on multiple PCI buses) to accomplish much better throughput and I/O rates.
I could perhaps agree with your preference for HWare RAID IF:
1) It could be spanned over multiple controllers
2) It could allow one to create non-RAID boot partitions on the disks used.
3) It could compete for RAID5 performance with software RAID on a modern machine.
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