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Re: Advice: Hardware vs. Software RAID5



On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 03:40:15PM -0800, tofu.oni@gmail.com wrote:
> 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?

I've heard it recommended for any RAID, but I've never had a problem under
Linux sw RAID with differing brands of drives.

--Greg


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