[Gllug] re: software vs hardware RAID

[Ian Norton]

Martin A. Brooks wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 14:42 +0100, Ian Norton wrote:
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>>The *big* ish problem with _some?_ hardware RAID is that the data stored 
>>on each disk is usually a closed format 
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>You back up your data, right? 
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:-), of course.

but with that logic, there is no point in raid in the first place.   it 
dies? restore form backup...  that takes alot longer than replacing a 
PCI card.

Ian
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