[Discuss] raid controller drivers

Bill Ricker bill.n1vux at gmail.com
Fri Sep 26 13:13:27 EDT 2014


On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 7:43 PM, John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:
> convinced me was that
> with hardware raid, the controller can fail, and would have to be replaced
> with an identical controller, which might no longer be available on the
> market by the time your controller fails.


Right, HW Raid is fine when a system vendor is maintaining the cabinet
with guaranteed replacement supplies.  And must be replaced when
vendor says it's going out of support.

But not suitable for shoe-string systems.

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