Hardware vs software raid

[Diego Xirinachs]

Well, in my experience Dell has very good support, and also they told me
that the raid controller inside the r310 is certified to run on red hat and
suse, I checked the ubuntu hcl and also found the server model listed there.


Avi, what hassle are you refering to? Software raid requires more
configuration than hardware raid, am I wrong?

A little more info, the ubuntu installation I am going to setup here will
have critical company info so it needs to be fault tolerant, which raid
array type should I go with? I have used raid 0 in the past but people tell
me thats not good practice because if a drive fails I am screwed. Is this
true?

Thanks so far for the help :-)

On Oct 20, 2011 2:11 AM, "Avi Greenbury" <lists at avi.co> wrote:
>
> Diego Xirinachs wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I much prefer software raid. The mild performance benefit of hardware
> raid is outweighed by the hassle benefit of software raid - it's so
> much easier to swap out failed hardware, and you're more guaranteed to
> get it doing what you want it to do, since md is something of a
> standard. I also prefer to trust as few opaque black boxes with my data
> as possible :)
>
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