On Wed, 19 May 2004 AndyLiebman@xxxxxxx wrote: >But the question still remains, is there any other safety and reliability >advantage to using Hardware? Is the data on a Hardware RAID more likely to >remain intact in the event of a computer crash or freeze? The linux software RAID is good stuff. It *can* be difficult to repair an array in a few cases -- don't put the root FS in a non-mirrored array and they shouldn't be a problem. As you don't care about CPU cycles used by the array, you're far better off using the software raid with normal drive controllers. (esp. true for SATA.) Hardware RAID cards generally offer better managability and stability -- the OS doesn't have to know if a drive fails, they're designed to hot-swap drives with little or no fuss, etc. But, they will be just a reliable as anything else. For a system I never want to have to touch, I use hardware raid. For those systems sitting at my feet, that isn't as important. --Ricky - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
