Toby Thain wrote:
On 22-May-07, at 11:01 AM, Louwtjie Burger wrote:
On 5/22/07, Pål Baltzersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What if your HW-RAID-controller dies? in say 2 years or more..
What will read your disks as a configured RAID? Do you know how to
(re)configure the >controller or restore the config without
destroying your data? Do you know for sure that a >spare-part and
firmware will be identical, or at least compatible? How good is your
service >subscription? Maybe only scrapyards and museums will have
what you had. =o
Be careful when talking about RAID controllers in general. They are
not created equal! ...
Hardware raid controllers have done the job for many years ...
Not quite the same job as ZFS, which offers integrity guarantees that
RAID subsystems cannot.
Depend on the guarantees. Some RAID systems have built in block
checksumming.
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