On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com> 
wrote:

>
> Having said that, I've *never* had a RAID controller fail (IBM ServeRAID). 
>  Some have been pretty poor (such as the ServeRAID 8k), and drives fail, of 
> couse, but never an array.  And I've never lost an entire IBM RAID array for 
> any reason.

I've seen the IBM RAID cards break (yes, 8k's I think...)- but it is
rare and we always have a spare chassis or two sitting around. For a
one-off box I'd use software, though.   I generally like the ability
to recover data from any single disk on any compatible controller like
you can with software RAID1.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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