[Gllug] re: software vs hardware RAID

[Christopher Hunter]

On Thursday 04 Nov 2004 15:04, Martin A. Brooks wrote:

> Then you miss the point of RAID entirely.  RAID has _never_ been about
> stopping you losing data.  It's about speed and redundancy.

Umm...  no.  The primary objective of RAID is to make disk failures less 
catastrophic.  That sounds like prevention of loss of data to me!  Any speed 
benefits are just a happy side-effect.

Chris 
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