Hardware vs software raid

[Alex Muntada]

+ Diego Xirinachs <dxiri343 at gmail.com>:

> I decided to get a dell r310 but I dont know if I should get the hardware
> raid or just configure software raid on the server.

In my experience, hardware RAID is great for great hardware that comes
with great support. On the other hand, software RAID is good enough in
most cases and it has the plus that it doesn't depend on the hardware
(i.e. you can switch to a new physical or virtual server preserving
the RAID setup).

YMMV

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