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Davesworld · 10-05-2006, 08:45 PM

I believe that these days, software raid has been shown to be better than hardware raid and besides, most raid controllers sold these days are really jbod anyway which could only be raid by software. The first tipoff is when your raid controller is larger than your motherboard and needs a piano moving crew to lower it into place (slight gratuitous exaggeration) and then you need a ton of ram in the raid card itself. One of my Unix admin friends where I work (Boeing) claims that side by side, the software raid with the modern 'nix os'es usually outperform the big iron kilobucks hardware raid setups.

10-05-2006, 08:45 PM	#44
Davesworld Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Seattle, Wa Posts: 45	Re: 1 TB Limit? I believe that these days, software raid has been shown to be better than hardware raid and besides, most raid controllers sold these days are really jbod anyway which could only be raid by software. The first tipoff is when your raid controller is larger than your motherboard and needs a piano moving crew to lower it into place (slight gratuitous exaggeration) and then you need a ton of ram in the raid card itself. One of my Unix admin friends where I work (Boeing) claims that side by side, the software raid with the modern 'nix os'es usually outperform the big iron kilobucks hardware raid setups.