[HCoop-Discuss] Finalizing Hardware Upgrade

[Davor Ocelic]

On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:37:52 -0500
Ron Senykoff <freat at hcoop.net> wrote:

> Are we building completely redundant systems? If not, then there is
> not much point in discussing the possibility of the RAID card failing.
> There are many many parts that could fail and cause down time. I would
> rather discuss what is best to manage RAID, and for that I am very
> much in support of hardware RAID. Hardware RAID should provide us with
> faster rebuilds, with less hit on the CPU to keep the array up in
> read-only mode during the rebuild. There is also less room for user
> error with hardware RAID IMO.

I always manage to do what I want with mdadm, but without any doubt--
seeing the disk as /dev/sda and having hardware RAID behind it
transparently is simpler and preferred IMO.

Cya,
-doc