Re: tlug: Re: Making big ones out of little ones

[Chris Sekiya <sekiya@example.com>]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 09:58:26AM -0700, Scott M. Stone wrote:

> Software RAID is perfectly acceptable.

... if you don't give a damn about your data, sure.  About the only thing
software RAID is good for is for RAID 1, and if the kernel screws up during the
mirrored write you've got _two_ blown partitions.

> Even a Sun E450 does software raid amongst its internal drive arrays.

Come on, tell the _full_ story.  An E450 does software RAID because it has to
use ODS for _any_ RAID functions.  It _can't_ do hardware raid because it's on
the internal controller, but this is not something specific to E450s.  It's not
a selling point.

> You can get an external StorEdge RAID5 array

A1000 or D1000?  One does hardware RAID by default.  The other is just a bunch
of drives in an enclosure, so the bit about the E450 applies here too.

-- Chris
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