Re: [LUG] ide raid woes

[Dan Barber <danbee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 18:25, Kai Hendry wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:36:03 +0100, Steve Marvell wrote:
> > So, what PCI IDE RAID card am I going to ask for instead?
> 
> I don't see why people go for RAID. My friend's setup has two exactly
> the same HDs in the same box with some sort of RAID configuration.
> 
> My bet is if one goes bad, the other will do too at the same time. :)
> 
> Regards,
> -Kai
> 
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why not just use software raid?  i have a rackserver here using raid 1
(mirrored) in software and it works a treat.

- danbee


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