[ILUG] Hardware and Software raid

[John P. Looney]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 02:45:51PM +0100, Matthew French mentioned:
> I presume that I need to run controller specific software to create a
> hardware raid device. So if I ran mkraid, this would make it a software raid
> device? This is on a Sun Ultra 3000, and I did not check the available
> hardware before wiping off Solaris.

 Sun never do hardware raid. Their opinion is that your Ultra CPU's are
likely faster than any raid card, and better at doing RAID anyway. And any
good Sun engineer will beat your with your SS3000's backplane if he
catches you doing CPU intensive RAID like RAID 4/5.

 Stick with RAID 1+0. Your only man, when you have lots of cash.

Kate