Re: Storage server
Veljko <veljko3@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 09:43:57PM -0400, tdowg1 news wrote:
>
> If it was my call, I would go with high-end RAID card as well. But in
> this case I have to work without them. However, I've heard that
> software RAID is good for one thing. You can rebuild it in any other
> machine. If you use hardware controller and it dies, you have to buy
> same of very similar one to be able to save your data. Was I
> misinformed?
Some people have argued it's even better to use software raid than a
hardware raid controller because software raid doesn't depend on
particular controller cards that can fail and can be difficult to
replace. Besides that, software raid is a lot cheaper.
So what is better, considering reliability? Performance might be a
different issue.
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