Putting the debate and justification aside... FWIW.. on our Virtualization boxes we choose to do Raid 10, hardware based with a battery backup cache controller. Makes a significant impact on performance and reliability.
as to heat source issue... ah well we put our servers in Colo /DataCenters, as such heat is not such a big concern, however the ability to have have system working with partial hardware failure so that the repairs can be done at a time of our choosing is a dominant design factor.... Regards. Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet& Telecom On 7/26/2011 12:07 PM, Matt wrote: >> In my experience, definitely go hardware RAID. > My last major email server rebuild I went with software RAID1 after > quite a bit of debate. I prefer software raid for a number of reasons > and am not alone. > > http://backdrift.org/hardware-vs-software-raid-in-the-real-world-2 > > Nice thing is your not tied to any particular raid controller if it > dies. CPU cycles are plentiful as well but disk I/O is not. On a > modern machine software performs as well hardware from what I have > heard and seen. Another nice thing is not having to cram another card > and heat source in the box. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
