Re: 3ware vs Areca

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Jeff wrote:

> Yeah, it'd be fun to run more benchmarks, but the beefy box, for some reason,
> is a prod box busy 24/7.  no time to nuke it and fidgit :)

If you've got an existing array and you want to switch to another
controller, that may not work without nuking no matter what.  One other
reason to consider software RAID on top of a hardware controller running
JBOD mode is that there's no standard for how striping/mirroring is done,
so you can't just move a set of RAID disks to another brand of controller
normally.  That's no problem with software RAID.

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD