On 05/17 02:30 , Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 5/17/2011 2:06 PM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> > My advice is to get a 3ware RAID card and whatever disks you like for it.
> > There's some sharp corners on the management interface; but at least it
> > *has* a management interface that's consistent and sensible compared to the
> > Dell crap I've had to suffer through (on the occasions I could get it to
> > work).
> 
> That's good advice for large arrays or more complex raid levels, but 
> with the current price of disks it is pretty hard to justify compared to 
> simple mirroring.  And I've always liked the fact that in the case of 
> software raid1 you can recover the data from any single disk connected 
> to any physically compatible interface even if that's all that is left 
> of the original setup.

I found it to be a lot easier to deal with booting off a 3ware controller
than to reliably get redundant boot records on software RAID. That's the
main reason I prefer a hardware RAID controller.

As always, YMMV, and it's good to have choices and options.

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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