Gilboa Davara wrote on Tue, May 22 2007 at 10:47 (+0300): > Give the fact the most (if not all) on-board SATA RAIDs are actually > glorified BIOS based software RAID solutions I see little reason not to > use software RAID. > Unlike the nVidia RAID, Linux' software RAID: > A. ... can use partition instead of full drives (In your case: 5x300GB > in RAID5/md0 and 4x200GB in RAID/md1) > B. ... can be moved to a different. Just connect the driver to a new > machine, no matter which SATA controller is being used, and it'll work > out of the box. > C. ... scales much better, as the CPU power increases. D. ... can't have an unrecoverable hardware failure. Andreas. -- http://www.lysium.de/blog
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