On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 15:00, Ricky Beam wrote: > 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. is there any support from linux that can do this hot swappable a little easier? > > 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 -- -------------------------------------------------- | Ming Zhang, PhD. Student | Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering | College of Engineering | University of Rhode Island | Kingston RI. 02881 | e-mail: mingz at ele.uri.edu | Tel. (401) 874-2293 | Fax. (401) 782-6422 | http://www.ele.uri.edu/~mingz/ -------------------------------------------------- - 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
