RAID "hardware vs Software"

[Guest David Griffiths]

Hi All

 

Our server is equiped with Hardware 3 hardware raid mirrors, we had a

problem a few weeks back when we had a raid card failure. Had it just been a

drive life would have been easy, After I replaced the card the problems came

as I needed to recreate the mirror and that would kill the data on the

drives. I'm past the problem now but my question is:

 

What do the experts recommend for a raid setup.

 

Hardware or Software using Windows server software....?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Dave

[Guest Joshua Bolton]

RE: RAID "hardware vs Software"

 

Hardware raid is ALWAYS better with the only exception being software raid

can use different types of drive hardware. In other words you can software

raid a ide to a scsi drive for example.

[Guest David Griffiths]

Re: RAID "hardware vs Software"

 

Thanks

 

"Joshua Bolton" <JoshuaBolton@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:41919CE3-EE14-4F79-9B39-A66712639B06@microsoft.com...

> Hardware raid is ALWAYS better with the only exception being software raid

> can use different types of drive hardware. In other words you can

> software

> raid a ide to a scsi drive for example.

>

[Guest Leythos]

Re: RAID "hardware vs Software"

 

In article <NuCdnS0F26VJgIva4p2dnAA@telenor.com>, dayvg69

@yahoo.nospam.co.uk says...

> Hi All

>

> Our server is equiped with Hardware 3 hardware raid mirrors, we had a

> problem a few weeks back when we had a raid card failure. Had it just been a

> drive life would have been easy, After I replaced the card the problems came

> as I needed to recreate the mirror and that would kill the data on the

> drives. I'm past the problem now but my question is:

>

> What do the experts recommend for a raid setup.

>

> Hardware or Software using Windows server software....?

 

Hardware ONLY. If you do Soft RAID, if you have an OS glitch then you're

in trouble. Hardware, the card, only goes bad once in a great while -

that's why we do backups - the OS has glitches all the time.

 

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