[Gllug] Hardware SCSI RAID

[Chris Bell]

On Wed 18 Jan, Matthew Cooke wrote:
> 
> I'm currenlty trying to replace the software raid on a machine to hardware 
> SCSI RAID so it would be more suitable for an office server.
> 

> 
> If you have answers to any of the above questions then please help!
> 
> Matt.
> 
> 
   Beware of hardware RAID controllers as they may use any, possibly
non-standard, format for the discs, and may also rely on software run by the
main processor rather than an on-board processor, so may not be true
hardware RAID. If the controller dies, there is no guarantee that a
replacement will recognise the data. The only advice I have seen is that it
is often better to stay with software RAID.

-- 
Chris Bell

-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug