3 Dec
2009
3 Dec
'09
10:07 p.m.
On 12/3/2009 7:35 AM, Grant McWilliams wrote:
You can talk theoretics but I can tell you my real world experience. I cannot speak for other vendors but for 3ware this DOES work and is working so far with 100% success. I have a bunch of Areca controllers too but the drives are never moved between them so I can say how they'd act in that circumstance.
Brand probably matters a lot. The 3ware and Areca's I'm inclined to trust. They're true hardware RAID controllers and not just fakeraid. Things get a lot murkier when you get into the bottom half of the market.
But for smaller shops that can't afford to have 4+ of everything and don't need the CPU offload that a hardware RAID controller offers, Linux Software RAID is a solid choice.