martin f krafft put forth on 8/16/2010 10:26 AM: >> I prefer LSI and Intel raid cards. I should have said merely LSI >> as the Intel cards are licensed LSI cards. Hardware raid isn't as >> flexible as softraid as it works at the entire disk level, but boy >> is it so much easier to work with, > > … until your controller dies and you find out that the manufacturer > does not support the firmware anymore and your data are lost.
Ever heard of spares? If not you've not been in this game long. >> as much faster. > > Do you have research backing that up? You're kidding right? If not, Google is your friend here. >> The single biggest advantage to hardware raid is that you don't >> have to disk with changing bios boot order or anything like that >> if you have to reboot while drive in your boot array is >> offline/down/dead. It's all automatic. > > Why would you have to reboot before replacing a dead drive?? That > sounds like you got your priorities wrong. DIMM failure, extended power outage, kernel panic, colo personnel reboot the wrong box in a rack, etc, etc, etc. Sounds like you are new. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c69742e.3080...@hardwarefreak.com
