Veljko <velj...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 09:43:57PM -0400, tdowg1 news wrote: > > If it was my call, I would go with high-end RAID card as well. But in > this case I have to work without them. However, I've heard that > software RAID is good for one thing. You can rebuild it in any other > machine. If you use hardware controller and it dies, you have to buy > same of very similar one to be able to save your data. Was I > misinformed?
Some people have argued it's even better to use software raid than a hardware raid controller because software raid doesn't depend on particular controller cards that can fail and can be difficult to replace. Besides that, software raid is a lot cheaper. So what is better, considering reliability? Performance might be a different issue. -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sjasuwd2....@yun.yagibdah.de
