Darren New wrote:
> Tom Austin wrote:
>> I don't mind software RAID, but I've found they are a bit more touchy 
>> when it comes to OS working smoothly with them (windows and linux).
> 
> One advantage of a software RAID is that your OS will tell you when it 
> breaks. I never figured out, for example, how to get the Dell hardware 
> raid to actually tell me (under Linux) when one of the drives had 
> failed. Hence, it wasn't a whole lot of use, and I opened it up and used 
> the Linux software RAID instead.
> 


That is a problem - that each RAID system needs it's own unique drivers 
- windows or linux.

And of course - when you have the OS create/manage RAID you will have 
access to information without special drivers.


I like hardware RAID because of the transparency it can offer - it can 
appear as just 1 HD with no special OS functionality.

But it is because of this transparency that you need drivers to view the 
status of the array.


I guess it depends on what one if after and needs.


Tom

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