<p>No red herring at all. A statement of preference. My ability to diagnose a software raid failure is far better than for hardware. I can see what is supposed to happen as opposed to a silicon black box. A published API may or may not be "all there is" to a piece of hardware.<br>
Both harware and software fail. I can solder and code but I can't make a silicon wafer into a replacement chip while I can patch and recompile.<br>
I would be pretty happy with a hardware RAID controller that implemented the kernel's RAID functions with a flashed fpga. That would be an ideal rig to me. :-)</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 14, 2012 10:21 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <<a href="mailto:JLightner@water.com">JLightner@water.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
So you can disassemble all the components in the systems you buy and do chip or board level debugging of all components including DIMMs, CPUs and motherboards? Of all the reasons I've seen for not using hardware RAID this one seems to be the biggest red herring of all.<br>
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On 02/12/2012 11:59 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> Add to it that pretty much ALL hardware RAID is closed proprietary<br>
> stuff. I can't trust what I can't open and evaluate. And I sure don't<br>
> like having my feet to the fire for something I really can't fix.<br>
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