<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:44 AM, Jim Lynch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com">ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 02/09/2012 04:35 PM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:<br>
> May or may not have true-HW-based RAID available.<br>
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> On 2/9/12 3:37 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:<br>
>> Hardware based (for true RAID) because it doesn't require CPU cycles.<br>
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Has the concern about the possibility of the hardware controller<br>
breaking and being out of production been eliminated? At one time I<br>
recall the suggestion that using hardware raid was a bad idea because if<br>
the controller went OTL and there wasn't another available you'd get to<br>
start from scratch. I believe this concern was with the controllers on<br>
the MB however.<br>
<br>
That of course can be alleviated by proper backups. I always thought<br>
that was somewhat meaningless in a lot of cases 'cause I'd think many<br>
raid installations were to support a backup set of drives. Not all, of<br>
course, but surely that's a common purpose for a raid set.<br></blockquote><div><br>Even good hardware cards can fail. It's become better with modern raid cards writing some data to the drives about configuration. However it still is a huge SPoF waiting to happen. NOTHING beats the ability to pull out the drives and put them into a different chassis entirely, point bios to the boot drive and your're back up and running.<br>
<br>In fact, with software raid, it's easy to do a full backup by adding a large hard drive as a single mirror device for a system.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Jim.<br>
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