Re: HW or SW RAID

1999-03-18 Thread anoah
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

HW or SW RAID

1999-03-18 Thread Ingo T. Storm
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