Author: Christopher Meadors Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] [OT] RAID (was: Re: Which hardware do you use
foryourinstallation?)
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 10:20 -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote:
>
> ... and if you buy a spare hardware raid controller of *every type you have
> in use*.
>
> That's the main disadvantage of hardware raid over software raid - if the
> controller dies, you're dead in the water unless you have a spare that's
> exactly the same time. With software raid, if the controller or box die, you
> just stick the disks in another box and you're on your way.
That depends on the controller, a lot of recent ones are using the Linux
on-disk format. So if the controller fails you can just throw the disks
in a Linux machine and still have access to your data.
