Re: How safe is software RAID compared to how safe hardware RAID is!?

[Frank Smith <fsmith@hoovers.com>]

--On Tuesday, November 18, 2003 23:12:43 +0000 James R Bamford <jim@jimtreats.com> wrote:

> Hi folks..
> 
> hopefully everything will be working soon and i can get on with trying to
> get some backup scripts working :)
> 
> I am going to stick with this software RAID for the near future if it
> carries on working correctly.. I was just wondering what peoples views were
> of software vs hardware raid... anything and everything really.. I'm not
> that up on all the technology... I know that 3ware have a good rep in
> hardware... I also imagine that for more exotic RAID configurations its
> obviously a help to not stress the CPU with the RAID tasks.. for me tho with
> simple mirroring the CPU costs are minimal.. the linux core is a sturdy base
> to build upon so is software raid in this way a perfectly acceptible
> reliable RAID solution..
> 
> Just curious..
> 
> Thanks for everyones help
> 
> Jim
> 

They may be equally reliable, but it seems to me that there are a
lot more opportunities to accidently destroy a software raid than
a hardware raid.

Frank

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