On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 19:18, James Sparenberg wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 16:21, Greg Meyer wrote:
> > On Friday 31 October 2003 07:21 pm, Michael Adams wrote:
> > > No hardware RAID (on i586 architechture) supports this to my knowledge,
> > > but then it was attested that linux software raid was always better
> > > anyway:)
> > 
> > No hardware RAID with IDE type devices.  SCSI is very well supported because 
> > it does not rely upon device drivers.
> 
> Ironic,  RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks and was
> originally an IDE concept. 

Yeah, I always wondered about the Inexpensive part when it's typically
used with $1000 SCSI drives :-) Makes more sense if it was intended for
IDE at first.

> 
> James
> 
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