[Klug-general] Software Vs Hardware Raid

[Peter Frost]

Dan Attwood wrote:
> Surely if you talking about raid and servers the fact that it's portable is
> immaterial?
> 
> Being a decently speced raid 5 system means that the chances of total
> failure are greatly reduced and even if it does fail totally you will have
> full backups to restore from.

Unless the RAID board dies and you find that it's been EOL-ed by the 
manufacturer, in which case you're off to the data recovery firm with a 
sad expression and a wad of cash... ;)