Re: Single RAID5 Array for SBS2008 ??

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In article <#JWM72lrJHA.2368@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
cyberdudeiq@xxxxxxxxxxxx says...
If we are talking about RAID 1 only, I would like to HEAR the different
opnions on what is better...hardware or software RAID 1?
With hardware, you will probably run into trouble when needed to replace
HDDs (HP and other are picky about them)
With software you will have some more processing taking place on the CPU
(but with todays's CPUs...I doubt it will be an issue) but apart from same
size HDDs, you will have greater flexibility in managing ARRAYS and disks.

I have been recently burnt with HP ML 115 G5 built-in hardware controller
(adaptec) where the "master" disk from the array went south and I was stuck
with Array issues not rebuilding just because the HDDs were not Seagate.

Well, that has been my experience with RAID 1 at this level...


Having done this since the old NT days, software RAID is always a last
resort option.

I have several HP servers that have had failed hardware array drives,
one of them has 8 drives, never had a problem with rebuilding or staying
online while 1 drive is faulted. RAID-1 or 5 or 0+1.

With other servers, hardware seems to always be the way to go, even if
it's the crappy motherboard built-in RAID.

Software RAID is dead, don't consider it unless you're living on a test
world.

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