Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote at about 15:02:37 -0500 on Tuesday, May 17, 2011: > On 05/17 02:30 , Les Mikesell wrote: > > On 5/17/2011 2:06 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > > My advice is to get a 3ware RAID card and whatever disks you like for it. > > > There's some sharp corners on the management interface; but at least it > > > *has* a management interface that's consistent and sensible compared to > > > the > > > Dell crap I've had to suffer through (on the occasions I could get it to > > > work). > > > > That's good advice for large arrays or more complex raid levels, but > > with the current price of disks it is pretty hard to justify compared to > > simple mirroring. And I've always liked the fact that in the case of > > software raid1 you can recover the data from any single disk connected > > to any physically compatible interface even if that's all that is left > > of the original setup. > > I found it to be a lot easier to deal with booting off a 3ware controller > than to reliably get redundant boot records on software RAID. That's the > main reason I prefer a hardware RAID controller. > > As always, YMMV, and it's good to have choices and options. True... But I was under the impression that for smaller systems one is better off with software RAID since with hardware RAID if your card dies then you may be stuck with a proprietary inaccessible RAID unless you can find another similar hardware RAID card...
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