Re: SCSI or IDE
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 02:15, Jones, Steven wrote:
> If you lose the primary boot disk on software raid its not bootable in my
> experience.
That's often the case. If the disk entirely dies then the BIOS should be able
to boot from the other disk, but if the disk partially fails then it'll
probably not be bootable.
But if you want to save money on hardware software RAID-1 is a very good
option.
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