pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Reasoning: Hardware RAID, for the most part, is OS > Independant and OS Nonspecific. You set up a RAID 5 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ worse, it's HW specific. And you don't have HW specs or firmware source. But you have linux code and excellent hackers on linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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 danger! if the OS corrupts the RAID, ALL data is corrupted. -- HTML mails are going to trash automagically