--On Tuesday, November 18, 2003 23:12:43 +0000 James R Bamford <jim@jimtreats.com> wrote: > Hi folks.. > > hopefully everything will be working soon and i can get on with trying to > get some backup scripts working :) > > I am going to stick with this software RAID for the near future if it > carries on working correctly.. I was just wondering what peoples views were > of software vs hardware raid... anything and everything really.. I'm not > that up on all the technology... I know that 3ware have a good rep in > hardware... I also imagine that for more exotic RAID configurations its > obviously a help to not stress the CPU with the RAID tasks.. for me tho with > simple mirroring the CPU costs are minimal.. the linux core is a sturdy base > to build upon so is software raid in this way a perfectly acceptible > reliable RAID solution.. > > Just curious.. > > Thanks for everyones help > > Jim > They may be equally reliable, but it seems to me that there are a lot more opportunities to accidently destroy a software raid than a hardware raid. Frank -- Frank Smith fsmith@hoovers.com Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
