Hans Wilmer wrote:
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 08:42:00AM +0100, Simon Matter wrote:
- Hardware IDE Raid: Most so called hardware RAID are simply software
RAID, because the driver from the vendor does software RAID. Those
driver are often binary only and they do RAID worse than the Linux MD
driver does it. Until you want to go with true hardware RAID like 3ware,
stay away from it.
Ja, I will. For one thing, it's not an option to rely on drivers
supplied by the vendor, as you might suddenly get stuck without any
driver at all as soon as a kernel update or something like that is
neccessary. Well, 3ware seems to be what most ppl recommend.
For another thing, I'm very reluctant with trusting any IDE hardware
RAID. Before building on it, I definitely want to see that it actually
works.
We have three 3ware cards running is 3 seperate NFS boxes. They work great.
