On Feb 16, 2008 6:07 PM, Blammo <<a href="mailto:blammo.doh@gmail.com">blammo.doh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> .... software raid is a lot better than hardware raid.<br><br>As other posters have responded, as a generalization, that's simply a<br>false statement. There's a reason that most, if not all, high-end<br>servers use hardware raid. Speed, reliability, performance, all are<br>
improvements over software raid, and in some cases monsterous<br>improvements.<br></blockquote></div><br>But there is a vast difference between server class HW RAID and consumer class HW RAID. IMHO, software RAID is usually a better option then consumer class HW RAID because of it's flexibility, because the performance penalty is small (if any), and because it's free.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br>