Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote at about 15:02:37 -0500 on Tuesday, May 17, 2011:
 > 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.
True...
But I was under the impression that for smaller systems one is better
off with software RAID since with hardware RAID if your card dies then
you may be stuck with a proprietary inaccessible RAID unless you can
find another similar hardware RAID card...

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