Software raid VS hardware raid

Andrea Venturoli ml at netfence.it
Wed Jan 30 13:30:06 UTC 2013


On 01/28/13 21:43, Artem Kuchin wrote:

> I am planning to use mirror configuration of two SATA 7200rpm 2TB disks.

I personally vote for gmirror in this case; I've used it a lot and found 
it very good wrt to both performance and robustness.

You can spend the extra money you spare on the controller buying good 
disks; as someone else pointed out don't get "desktop-class" ones, but 
"24x7" ones.

Just my 2c.

  bye
	av.



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