On Thursday 02 September 2004 05:30 am, Henry Standing wrote:
Perhaps I should have explained the reason for h/w RAID over s/w RAID. I would like (although it is not an absolute requirement) to be able to Ghost off an image periodically. As the OS is providing RAID in s/w RAID, and to get Ghost32 up and running I have to boot off a custom PE disk, I would need RAID at the h/w level.
Why could you not ghost off each drive independently? Especially with raid1? Heck, I once took a software raid1 member, (just one of them) and mounted it read only on a totally different linux box and backed it up that way. I could not have done that with a hardware raid disk, I would have needed to get another identical controller. When you upgrade the machine or the disks, software raid gets faster. Hardware raid is is just as slow after an upgrade as before, because the controllers are the limiting factor. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen