On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 21:04, Dave Watkins wrote: > There is perhaps one extra thing hardware RAID will give you. When it comes > to hardware failures a Hardware RAID card will almost always detect a > failed (or failing) drive before any software based system would. In fact > I've seen a RAID card detect a failed drive before the HDD manufacturers > own Disk Diagnostic software, and they were happy to replace it based on my > RAID cards diagnosis.
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