hw vs sw raid (was Re: [TriLUG] RAID newbie question...)

[Roy Vestal]

<shameless plug>
yeah but for the right $$$, Jason may have 2 controllers sitting around. At
least I know he has some SCSI ones.
</shameless plug>
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Merrill" <cmerrill at nc.rr.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: hw vs sw raid (was Re: [TriLUG] RAID newbie question...)


> Mike Johnson wrote:
> > This is an important point, that perhaps may have been missed.  With HW
> > RAID, you're pretty much locked in.  If you HW RAID card dies (it
> > sucks), you either swap in the spare that you had laying around, hope
> > you can find a used one off eBay, or just kiss your data good-bye and
> > head for the tapes.  There is no 'standard' for HW RAID data.  Every
>
> Thanks!  I had no idea...
>
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