From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: How safe is software RAID compared to how safe hardware RAID is!? Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 08:56:02 +0100 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20031119075601.GA17805@percy.comedia.it> References: <16314.40792.616508.878124@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:12:43PM -0000, James R Bamford wrote: >carries on working correctly.. I was just wondering what peoples views were >of software vs hardware raid... anything and everything really.. I'm not i believe the real difference is: raid with a battery raid without a battery hw raid with a battery can improve reliability in case of system crash or power failure, without it cannot. L. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \