i will reply simply because i recently said hardware raid was too expensive.
i said poor private college. every nickel counts here. then you said 17 thousand
dollars. i laughed. apparently you did not read the rest of my post where i said
i had ~2000 users. not 10,000. when it counts, i buy more
Hi,
of course I want to use SW raid for some boxes myself, otherwise I would not
be on the list. For a dial-in or name server, typically with 2 small
external scsi harddisks, it's just the right "bang for the buck".
But I would like to know where the genral assumption that HW raid is "too
expens