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" <<a href="mailto:lists@avi.co">lists@avi.co</a>> 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 :) > > -- > Avi > > -- > ubuntu-server mailing list > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server</a> > More info: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam</a>