Re: [ubuntu-uk] Software verses Hardware raid (was RE:Anyone evertried kolab on feisty)

2007-09-28 Thread Mark Harrison
Alan Pope wrote: >> The conclusion they came up with was that for 99.9% of scenarios hardware >> > > 99.9% of scenarios that don't match what 99.9% of people here will > see :) > Indeed. I believe the original Mad Max film had a line that summed it up perfectly. Sadly, I can't find the or

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Software verses Hardware raid (was RE:Anyone evertried kolab on feisty)

2007-09-27 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Ian, On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 21:20 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote: > An interesting topic and one that has recently been done to death on the > Beowulf mailling lists under the "Big Storage" title (sorry, haven't sused > out their archive system yet). Now these guys are looking at HPC and HA > computi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Software verses Hardware raid (was RE:Anyone evertried kolab on feisty)

2007-09-27 Thread Ian Pascoe
k Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Software verses Hardware raid (was RE:Anyone evertried kolab on feisty) Hi Daniel, On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 15:58 +0100, Daniel Lamb wrote: > Personally I feel raids only real use is data protection, as hard drives are > sometimes very unreliable anyway how is real