On 2014-09-02, m.roth@5-cent.us m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
And my manager has taken a fancy to raw drives; not sure why.
Some reasons have already been cited in this thread. No reasons are given, but the author of md and mdadm apparently prefers raw drives too.
https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Partition_Types
I think the take-home message from that document is: "There is no right answer - you can choose."
--keith