Software RAID

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:41:30 -0700,
  Tom Spec <samag70-ignore at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> 
> I have had very good success with the method I described, including several incidents of 
> failed drives.  Clearly it's not as good as hardware RAID, but still I think
> it is MUCH  better than nothing.  It is certainly the best mirroring solution
> I have come across short of a hardware RAID controller.

Actually it isn't that clear. Software raid can give you better performance
than hardware raid. You also don't get locked into specific hardware.
Unless you are buying raid cards with battery backed cache or cannot spare
the cpu overhead, you are probably going to be better off with software
raid.