[CentOS] software raid

Thu Mar 29 21:03:41 UTC 2007
chrism at imntv.com <chrism at imntv.com>

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>
> There is one advantage of hardware RAID that hasn't been mentioned 
> yet, and that's hot-swap.  Last time I tried, software RAID fell over 
> when a HDD suddenly disappeared.
>

That is my understanding too.  Perhaps I'm just lazy, but I like being 
able to just plug all the drives into the controller and have everything 
just work.  I am not saying software RAID is bad, but I just don't have 
the time to fiddle with it anymore when a cheap and stable hardware RAID 
card is readily available and is well supported with "out of the box" 
kernels. 

Cheers,