Re: raid controller recommendation
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 04:09:49PM -0500, Nathan Bryant wrote:
Neal D. Becker wrote:
>No, hardware raid is a struggle. Software raid is easy.
>
>Software raid is also more flexible! You can raid partitions, instead of
>whole disks.
>
matter of opinion. mylex's controllers are very easy to set up. also hot
swappable which i believe software raid is not.
Software raid supports hotswap providing your hardware does - eg SCSI
with proper hot swap SCA bays, or IDE with one disk per channel and a
suitable controller