RAID Preference[s]

Do you prefer soft or hard raid? Why?
I grabbed a couple 10G drives [soft] for a msce lab, but wondering what you all, your companies use.

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johnnynodough

Friend dont let Friends use software raids

Ricka182

johnnynodough wrote:

Friend dont let Friends use software raids

Oh so true.....rofl

I would recco Hardware raid. I never trust software.

lordy

Hardware RAID like 3Ware and ICP is nice, but Linux Software RAIDs are pretty cool too.

If you got the choice and the money, hardware is obviously the way to go.

matts5074

Hardware.

I have HighPoint RAID controller built into my motherboard running two 250GB Hitachi drives on RAID 1.

No way would I go software if it was something I really cared about.

paige1

Software RAID???

Maybe I need to get out more, but I never heard of it (Until now). Live and learn.

TheShadow

Been around since NT, but they finally got it working in the NT 5 betas (win2k) as dynamic disks without crashing. The bad reputation of software RAID was already aquired by then an many people won't touch it expecially with the cheapness of hardware RAID 0 and 1 in IDE and SATA flavors.

p.s. here is a nice intro link
http://www.techimo.com/articles/index.pl?photo=149

johnnynodough

You will never get the speeds with software raids that you can get with hardware raids either. I honestly dont understand the point of a software stripe, sure you have mutiple IDE controllers that can read and write data, but you dont have any central controller that can pipeline the data, so your speeds are no different than a single disk.

Plantwiz

goasakawa wrote:

Do you prefer soft or hard raid? Why?
I grabbed a couple 10G drives [soft] for a msce lab, but wondering what you all, your companies use.

Guess I'm a bit late to the conversation, but Hardware RAID only (unless you merely wish to 'practice' to know what a software RAID is/does. In a business setting where time is money....ALWAYS HARDWARE.