On 05/18 02:45 , Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > 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...
There are always tradeoffs. :) 3ware cards aren't hard to come by. Administrator time is. (These of course are relative statements and YMMV). If you have the hardware within kicking range you have a different set of problems than I do (most of my backuppc instances are effectively 'lights out' operations). -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/