Peter Kjellstrom wrote: >> If you do use hard RAID, make sure you back up the card's config and >> keep the backup in a safe place. >> > > This is probably a good idea anyway, but I'd like to point out that most > hardware raid cards (and linux software raid) keeps the array config on the > array members themselves. That is, you can typically swap the > raid-controller, reboot and see your old arrays. > > That is *definitely* the case for 3Ware cards. Cheers,