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sapsa:
Dear BakaBT,

I'm allways reading post at "technology" realy often,
alot of people i respect here use RAID matrix
Im just dont know do you guys prefer hardware or software solution for RAIDs
Are you using dedicated linux/windows/other os servers with hw/sw RAID?

Thanks for your Time :)

Mcgreag:
It's not so much to what one prefer as to what one affords. Real hardware raid cards are expensive, if you want real hardware RAID 5 you are looking at 300-400$ for a cheap card, 600$+ for a good one.

I use software raid 5 (4x750gb = 2tb total). Due to it being software raid the speed is not much better than a single drive but I use it mainly for safety, so I won't lose everything if a drive dies. Once had a drive die in a 2 disk raid 0 array, not going to make the same misstake twice.

nstgc:
I have an actual hardware RAID card (not fake RAID), but it is cheap (both in price and quality). I dare say that most people here who claim to have hardware RAID actually are just using their motherboard's RAID (which is a software RAID). I don't use any kind of RAID right now. My HDD is fast enough.

[edit] As for speed, with a dedicated RAID card, with its one XOR processor,  with 4 drives in a RAID 5 performed a little better than 3 times faster than a single drive.

Jarudin:
Since I stopped tinkering with RAID none of my hard disks have failed me.

Karma perhaps? I don't use RAID anymore.
I currently have 8 disks, of which one SSD.

If you're gonna go RAID might as well do it in hardware. Apparently software RAID is getting better but it just feels half-assed.

--Jarudin--

nstgc:
Thats why I stopped using that RAID card. I had two simultaneously drop out and the two that remained were fucked up (the information that is, not the actual drive). That was the last time I've had significant hard drive problems.

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