raid controller recommendation

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 04:09:49PM -0500, Nathan Bryant wrote:
> Neal D. Becker wrote:
> 
> >No, hardware raid is a struggle.  Software raid is easy.
> >
> >Software raid is also more flexible!  You can raid partitions, instead of 
> >whole disks.
> >
> matter of opinion. mylex's controllers are very easy to set up. also hot 
> swappable which i believe software raid is not.

Software raid supports hotswap providing your hardware does - eg SCSI
with proper hot swap SCA bays, or IDE with one disk per channel and a 
suitable controller