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 enhancements to the controllers and drives for the Gen8 hardware. D On Nov 18, 2013, at 12:37 AM, David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote: > 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 Lang > > On Sun, 17 Nov 2013, Atom Powers wrote: > >> 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" <jbori...@gmail.com> 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 will save me some >>> $$$$ >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Robert Hajime Lanning <lann...@lanning.cc >>>> wrote: >>> >>>> 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" operating systems. When a "fakeraid" device goes >>>> into a failure mode (degraded RAID set), it stops. You need to boot >>>> windows to rebuild the RAID set. The "fakeraid" is a BIOS boot supported >>>> software RAID. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Mr. Flibble >>>> King of the Potato People >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Tech mailing list >>>> Tech@lists.lopsa.org >>>> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >>>> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >>>> http://lopsa.org/ >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> John J. Boris, Sr. >>> Online Services >>> www.onlinesvc.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tech mailing list >>> Tech@lists.lopsa.org >>> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >>> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >>> http://lopsa.org/ >>> >>> > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/
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