[CentOS] Re: Raid Cards

[Scott Silva]

Drew Weaver spake the following on 6/8/2006 11:15 AM:
> 	Software RAID has failed us so many times in the past that I
> would never recommend it to anyone. Things like: the raid breaking for
> no reason and the server continually rebuilding over and over, and once
> a drive does finally die the other drive wasn't being mirrored properly
> (or wouldn't boot even though we manually sync'd the bootloaders as
> suggested.).
> 
> 	It has been nothing but a hassle, so if you need reliable data
> you need to find a card that works for you, I'm not sure why people are
> so ready to suggest software raid when the fact is its pretty
> unreliable.

The only time I had a real software raid problem, it was self-inflicted. I
tried to use all the channels on an ide card. Using desktop drives instead of
enterprise drives can also jinx it.

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