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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