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Re: Advice: Hardware vs. Software RAID5



On Jan 15, 9:10 am, Gregory Seidman <gsslist
+deb...@anthropohedron.net> wrote:
>  anything that
> kills your motherboard (short circuit in the memory, CPU overheating, etc.)
> also takes out your RAID controller. To be able to access your data you'll
> need the same RAID controller

doh!  I hadn't thought of that.  Thanks.  Software it is!

I have an existing setup that uses four 120G drives in software RAID 5
under windows 2000, and I learned that it's best to have exactly the
same kind of drives.  Mixing WD and Seagate caused problems.  Is that
a RAID 5 idiosyncrasy or a windows thing?


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