hardware raid solutions?

[Damien Hull]

David Abrahams wrote:
> "Eric S. Johansson" <esj at harvee.org> writes:
>
>   
>> I need a relatively low-cost hardware raid solution (not pseudo
>> hardware) so I can implement raid five on the root and boot
>> partitions. For a variety of reasons, I would take quite a bit of
>> convincing to use software raid for this application.
>>     
>
> Considering the trouble I've been having getting a bootable dmraid/LVM
> setup going (weeks of pain, no gain) I think that's a good choice.
>
> Does anyone happen to know if hardware RAID is easier to configure
> than software RAID?
>
>
>   
It can be. However, you need to make sure the card is supported during 
the install of Ubuntu. If not you will have to add the RAID card driver 
after you do the install. Which means / won't be on the RAID set.