software raid

vu pham vu at sivell.com
Thu Aug 7 13:10:21 PDT 2008


C M Reinehr wrote:
> 
> Glad you could figure it out.
> 
> I'm just the opposite, I prefer the software (md) raid and use nothing but 
> Raid 1. Considering how inexpensive hard drive capacity is these days, I 
> don't mind the extra expense of raid 1 over raid 5. I overlay the raid drives 
> with LVM and get stripping, as well. I like the fact that if a drive fails I 
> still can recover the data off of the remaining drive.
> 

Absolutely agree, when the system does not have a raid controller :)

Vu



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