Hi; It's all about performance when you consider H/W raid. It will put extra overhead on your OS . As ZFS is fast, I will always prefer ZFS based RAID. It will also save cost of RAID card.
================ Ashish Nabira nab...@sun.com http://sun.com Work is worship." ================ On 13-Jan-09, at 4:49 PM, Orvar Korvar wrote: > Ok, I draw the conclusion that there is no consensus on this. Nobody > really knows for sure. > > I am in the process of converting some Windows guys to ZFS, and they > think that HW raid + ZFS should be better than only ZFS. I tell them > they should ditch their HW raid, but can not really motivate why. > That is why I am asking this question. And noone at SUN does really > know, it seems. Ive asked this in another thread, no answer. > > I will tell people that ZFS + HW raid is good enough, and I will not > recommend against HW raid anymore. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
