On 12 Jun 2008, at 09:49, Martin.Hepworth wrote:
> Software raid isn't optimal....never has been
>
> Hardware raid is the way to go if you need RAID.
Actually software RAID has some good points going for it - except on
very high end systems (ie SAN based) hardware RAID basically adds a SPOF
- and in my experience that SPOF seems to be louse up more often than
the disks attached to it.
Correctly implemented s/w RAID with multiple channels to the disks (ie
typically separate IDE/SATA channels to the disks) is more resilient.
As anecdotal evidence I had a machine fail yesterday with what appears
to be a wobby in the on-board (major h/w vendor server class kit)
hardware RAID controller.
But we are somewhat off the subject of exim...
Nigel.
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