Personal Choice: I would take hardware RAID over software RAID any three days of the week. Reasoning: Hardware RAID, for the most part, is OS Independant and OS Nonspecific. You set up a RAID 5 array in hardware, the OS doesn't know, or care, that it's not one big disk. Another is that USUALLY a driver upgrade in an OS is alot safer for the data than an over-all update of a RAID system. Meaning it's safer to take the driver from version 1 to version 2 than it is an entire storage schema. I remember the DriveSpace/Stacker/SuperStor days as well.....<shudder> Nothing like taking an entire hard drive's worth of data and making it one big assed compressed file. --- Brian Fahrlander <Brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 00:20, Scott Burns wrote: > > > Unless my terminology is wrong, it's only one > RAID10 set, that is, > > multiple RAID1 sets making up a RAID0 stripe. > RAID1+0 as I think some > > people call it. > > > > However, you are right in that there is no reason > you can't make it a > > RAID1+5 with 10 disks or even 15 disks to give the > same sorts of > > protection or better than the 12 disk RAID10. I > take the rant along the > > lines of "if you're going to the trouble, go with > the best you can, and > > RAID5 isn't it". This is why I'm interested in > why other's have RAID > > failures and what they plan(ned) to do next. > > It sounds like you guys REALLY know this stuff > inside out; it might > be the right place to ask a possibly heretical > question: > > Hardware versus Software RAID > > I have a Windows-natured friend who thinks any > software raid isn't > worth the setup...but then, he remembers stacker, > and stays with the OS > that made it a legend. :) > > Meanwhile, I've used simple setups, mostly for > longevity and in > places I'd rather not make a road trip. It's a > small set, and by NO > means should be construed as an alternative for > serious computing, but > for home/hobbyist work, it's solid. > > But you guys seem to have had the 'runtime' with > these systems that > I haven't. What's your opinion of software RAID (for > non-competitive, > home installations)? > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Brian Fahrländer Researcher, > Conservative, and Technomad > Evansville, IN > http://Fahrlander.net > ICQ 5119262 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature name=signature.asc ===== -------------------------------------------------------------- "Never memorize what you can look up." -Albert Einstein
