> | personally, I prefer to use commodity hardware in part because it's so > | mundane. how long will it take you to RMA that HW raid card? if you're > | already paying for a big-name HW support contract, the time/money may be > | quite minimal. > > It's always a hot debate here SW raid vs HW raid ... I think it depends I don't believe there is much real debate: debate presumes that someone will change their mind. > what you want to do, how much work you want to put into it, how much you > trust your admin, that he can punch in some commands to replace a b0rked > HD or if she/he can only replace a HD physically (those hot swap stuff > in the HP boxes eg.). egads - if you're trusting an admin who has so recently said "would you like fries with that", then you have other serious risks. OK, to summarize, everyone agrees that: sw raid is faster, cheaper and not dependent on obscure hardware. hw raid is "supported" by someone, and runnable by a drooling idiot. amusing how this resembles the whole linux-windows TCO-based argument. > Eg I see no reason to do software raid if you can have hw raid as a > reasonable price. speed is enough for me. - 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
