Furthremore , hw controller are much less feaure rich than sw raid. many different stripe sizes, stripe cache tunning .... On 25 Aug 2006 23:50:34 -0400, linux@xxxxxxxxxxx <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hardware RAID can be (!= is) more tolerant of serious drive failures > where a single drive locks up the bus. A high-end hardware RAID card > may be designed with independent controllers so a single drive failure > cannot take other spindles down with it. The same can be accomplished > with sw RAID of course if the builder is careful to use multiple PCI > cards, etc. Sw RAID over your motherboard's onboard controllers leaves > you vulnerable. Which is exactly why I *like* SW RAID - I can, and do, have the mirrors span controllers so a whole controller can fail without taking down the system. With HW RAID cards, if your controller dies, you're SOL. - 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
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