Jesse Keating wrote: > For 2 drive stuff, sure maybe. But we deal with 4/8/12/16 drive > chassis, all on 3ware stuff. I don't think software raid can handle > those situations. Linux_software_raid is *stable* > Especially not with remote web configurations, > alerts (included, not build your own), etc... remote _web_ for critical storage ? command line is the best. > Software raid has it's place, and it's cheap, but the Original Poster > asked for a hardware solution. The only solution I would consider is a > 3ware solution. Do you believe that LiNUX_soft_raid is worse to be 'soft'? You are wrong. Why is 3w best ? Maybe if you buy a high end board, with a Xscale 600-700Mhz chip you will get better performance. But low end boards with *100Mhz* , the most ordinary boards out there, you are going to win _nothing_. Mainly because linux_soft_raid is very well designed and current system processors/buses and memory are very fast today. And remember, if you have HW raid boards implementations you must have the *same board* _very near_ because they use a owner format(double expense)
