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Re: SATA and RAID5 software



On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 09:30:42PM -0700, michael@etalon.net wrote:
> Quoting Andrea Ganduglia <nonews.org@gmail.com>:
> 
> >I'm skipping RAID HARDWARE for RAID SOFTWARE for two reasons: 1)
> >Backups can be made slowly, because it happen on night time. 2) I have
> >more trust into RAID HOWTO that into bios features.
> 
> One reason I like sofware raid over hardware raid is that
> mdadm will email you when a drive goes faulty.
> Perhaps there is a hardware raid card that can do the same,
> but I havent' seen one. If there is, please post, I would be interested.
> 

That is probably more a function of the monitoring software you use
(most likely provided by the card vendor) and not the card itself.

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr

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