> On Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 3:08 PM deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thomas A. Anderson wrote: >> >> > If hardware raid (like if I bought a controller), would it be any >> > different, if I removed the drives and just put on one another machine >> > -- would I be able to see the data on it like a normal drive? Or would I >> > run into the same issue?? >> >> if you choose using hardware raid over software raid, then the management >> of >> the RAID depends on the controller. This means you have to use the >> management tools provided by the manufacturer and in order to use this >> disk on another computer, you have to make sure that the other computer has >> also the same controller (I mean exactly the same). >> > And I suggest a very first step of making sure that the firmware on the > RAID card is up to date. I have been in situations with Dell Perc cards > where the array was unrecoverable after media failure. >
> Also mdadm provides monitoring and email notification, which in case of >> hardware raid can also be done, but is more exotic or would require >> something like SNMP. >> It might be common in some vendor specific server hardware, but I usually >> avoid it on no brand PC. >> > > For servers there will be more powerful logging and monitoring software > watching, so not really necessary. But you could well do the same for a > desktop machine. > >>
