Hosting again

[Paul Makepeace]

On 11/1/07, Martin A. Brooks <martin at antibodymx.net> wrote:
> Roger Burton West wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 12:24:49PM -0800, Simon Burr wrote:
> >
> >
> >> That depends. Whilst you can do RAID5 in software, its generally better to
> >> use hardware to do the work for you.
> >>
> >
> > My experience is that:
> >
> > Good RAID5 hardware >
> > Linux software RAID >
> > Cheap RAID5 hardware
> >
> > where "good" tends to mean "Adaptec".
>
> Given Adaptec have managed to release some of the most  shamelessly crap
> bits of RAID kit I've ever had the misfortune to use, my tree would look
> like
>
> 3ware/Compaq/Mylex hardware raid >
> software RAID >
> Crappy hardware RAID that's really software RAID and/or Adaptec

My tree would look like,

Managed hosting company who has to deal with that shit >
About anything else

Anyone kung-fu posturing about RAID has mentioned the One True RAID:
Redundant Array of International Datacenters :-P

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