From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: 3ware escalade vs software raid, from a different jeff Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 07:32:02 -0500 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4034ACC2.7090909@pobox.com> References: <20040218214840.GS20790@datavibe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids M=E5ns Rullg=E5rd wrote: > Holger Kiehl writes: >=20 >=20 >>In my opinion no. Most of the cheaper hardware raids are really just >>software raid solutions. For the more expansive once always remember >>you will always need drivers and there is no guarentee that you >>will get them in two or three years. Some vendors do no longer exist >>or no longer support that product. >=20 >=20 > Wasn't there some talk recently about standardizing the on-disk > format for both hardware and software RAID? It's happening. "SNIA" has created an on-disk format "DDF", which both software and=20 hardware RAID vendors have pretty much all agreed to use. Of course, the spec is not public yet, so who knows what they have=20 agreed to... Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html