Thoughts -> Re: classiccmp server

From: Paul Koning <pkoning_at_equallogic.com>
Date: Mon Oct 4 12:30:42 2004

>>>>> "Jay" == Jay West <jwest_at_classiccmp.org> writes:

>> Do I remember you run FreeBSD? Set up a nice SATA pair or triplet
>> and run software RAID.
 Jay> Never ever ever ever run any raid level in software. It's always
 Jay> a bad idea.

Why? All RAID runs in software -- the only question is whose software
and which processor.

Not all RAID software is sufficiently good, and not all RAID software
is complete (I've seen some that had the recovery cases "not yet
implemented"...) but that's a different question.

    paul
Received on Mon Oct 04 2004 - 12:30:42 BST