On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 12:56 PM, Anthony Youngman <antlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 30/06/17 15:35, Phil Turmel wrote: >> >> The only good reason for hardware raid, in my opinion. Balanced against >> vendor lock-in, limited layout options, and a plethora of management >> interfaces. > > > And lost data when your controller quits, and you can't find another one > that implements the same sort of raid ... Back in the days of SCSI that was very true but .. In the defense of the hw raid vendor I've worked with quite a bit (LSI), I've found you can migrate RAID arrays from controller to controller quite easily. So if your raid controller fails, you can always grab the current available controller that supports your required raid level. I've created arrays in the older 1068 controller (PCI-X card) and easily migrated it to a newer 2008 or 2108 based controller with no fuss. See's the older array as an 'external' array and imports just fine. -- Drew -- 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
