Martin Nix wrote:
Software RAID does not scale too well I'm afraid (in my experience)
It depends what the application is. Software RAID via Linux in my experience is better than fake RAID as implemented on cheap RAID cards.
Pay a couple of hundred quid for a half-decent card and of-course that's better. But you can pick up a server for around £150 these days, and add 4-off 500GB drives for another £200. At that level almost doubling the cost to add a decent hardware RAID card to the equation makes little sense (albeit more sense than doubling the cost to stick Windows server onto it!)
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