nVidia or software RAID 5?

[Andreas Bernauer]

Gilboa Davara wrote on Tue, May 22 2007 at 10:47 (+0300):
> Give the fact the most (if not all) on-board SATA RAIDs are actually
> glorified BIOS based software RAID solutions I see little reason not to
> use software RAID.
> Unlike the nVidia RAID, Linux' software RAID:
> A. ... can use partition instead of full drives (In your case: 5x300GB
> in RAID5/md0 and 4x200GB in RAID/md1)
> B. ... can be moved to a different. Just connect the driver to a new
> machine, no matter which SATA controller is being used, and it'll work
> out of the box.
> C. ... scales much better, as the CPU power increases.

D. ... can't have an unrecoverable hardware failure.

Andreas.

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