[Eug-lug] OT: Intel Motherboard forsale

[badd_karma at comcast.net]

> How do you perceive hardware RAID as better than Linux's software
> RAID?  Software RAID will work if you move the disks to a different
> system.  Software RAID uses negligible CPU and memory bandwidth.
> Software RAID gets regular bug fixes for free when you upgrade
> your distro.

The system in question is, um cough, not,  cough, running, cough, linux, cough, cough. Whew. Who said that?

Anyway.... On Linux I find software raid good for most simple setups and it has gotten SO much better than it was in the past. I still occastionally have problems with raid 1 arrays, especially when combined with LVM, that contain /boot, but most of they time it's fine. I still try to stick with true (processor and cache) hardware based raid controllers for raid 5 arrays or where I need better monitoring, or where I need super fast performance no matter what the system is doing. 

When I get a few minutes I'm going to tackle finding a hotswap sata cage and getting the whole thing to work... Anybody have an experience with hotswap + sata? Comments?

Garl