Re: IDE raid - which is better ? - modifying

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 07:13:21PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> 
> hi ya
> 
> yeah... if the "buffering works" that the flash or
> its temporary space can retain the fact that it did
> complete flushing data to disk and the mirror...
> 
> guess that should work... but ... why do all that
> when for $10 or $50 more you can get a real hw raid controller
> and if it dont work ( you lost your data ) in the
> middle of a power failure...you can return the 
> "not so good" raid controller...
> 
> 
> simulate the failure mode you are using raid to protect
> against and see if it worked...
> 

Let me state:

I don't plan on doing this myself, software raid, and normal controllers are
fine for me.

But what if you pay ~$50 more, and the only difference is a different bios
and a resistor?

Mike