On Sunday 02 December 2007, Jim Flanagan wrote: <snip>
I'm not sure which way to go, but am leaning toward the software raid option (md raid).
This is probably a loaded question, but any thoughts on the matter?
Jim F
Hi Jim,
Hardware RAID need not be overly expensive. You can purchase an Adaptec SATA RAID 1210SA for about $59.00USD from Newegg.com:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816103020
This card would be quite suitable for what you are doing and is fairly easy to setup. I have used it on a couple low-end servers and have never had a problem.
Jesse
Interesting, I didn't know they were that inexpensive. I'm still a bit unclear as to what is true raid and what is "fake" raid. Is this a true raid card, or is it a software raid on a card? As I said I really don't understand the difference.
Tks,
Jim F
The primary difference between "software" and "hardware" RAID is that software RAID was developed to run under the booted Operating System. Hardware RAID is self-contained and provides greater performance and reliability. The RAID chips on most motherboards are basically disk controllers that provide a software implementation of a RAID controller at boot. Wikipedia has a pretty good entry on RAID: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#Implementations Have a good one! Jesse