Let me clarify:
In my experience software RAID is more stable than /on board/ hardware
RAID. An expensive RAID controller with batter backup will, of course,
give you better performance and reliability than software RAID.
On-board controllers like you find in consumer desktops and even many
server
Wait, I missed the e-mail with Atom's assertion:
SOFTWARE RAID? ... more stable than HARDWARE RAID?
That has never been my experience at all. Maybe that's true in the white-box
world, but my experience with HP RAID controllers has me head-over-heels in
love with them, especially with the enhanc
The problem with software RAID is that if you loose power in the middle of a
write, you may end up with some drives updated and others not.
With battery-backed hardware RAID. the controller knows this and finishes the
write when power returns (assuming the battery doesn't die first)
David Lan
I had a RAID 5 system go down and had to rebuild from scratch. The first
drive went belly up and no matter what I did I could not get the system up.
Since then I at $WORK I configure one RAID array for the OS and the other
Array for the data. Now this I really don't care I would just use the one
ar
On 11/17/13 14:01, Atom Powers wrote:
Software RAID is always, in my experience, more stable than on-board
"RAID" especially if you only have one OS.
The only issue I have ever had with software RAID (Linux MD and LVM base
RAID), has been the boot drive.
Without a piece of hardware to presen
Software RAID is always, in my experience, more stable than onboard "RAID"
especially if you only have one OS.
On Nov 17, 2013 12:59 PM, "john boris" wrote:
> Robert,
> Yes I understand that. I am trying to keep the cost down and if the
> Motherboard I get has a good onboard controller than it wi
Robert,
Yes I understand that. I am trying to keep the cost down and if the
Motherboard I get has a good onboard controller than it will save me some
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Robert Hajime Lanning
wrote:
> On 11/17/13 11:52, john boris wrote:
>
>> up. I can live with an onboard Raid
On 11/17/13 11:52, john boris wrote:
up. I can live with an onboard Raid controller as I plan to use 2 drives
mirrored.
The bane of "on-board RAID". Make sure the on-board RAID solution is
not of the "fakeraid" variety. The "fakeraid" only exists for dual boot
compatibility with "other" oper
First I want to thank all that answered my first question. So now I am
looking to build the machine. I have learned from other mistakes to not use
one of my "older units" on my shelf. Also they are very old and it isn't
worth the effort. I understand that it should have the most memory as
possible.
