Re: 3ware escalade vs software raid, from a different jeff

Måns Rullgård wrote:

Holger Kiehl [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

In my opinion no. Most of the cheaper hardware raids are really just
software raid solutions. For the more expansive once always remember
you will always need drivers and there is no guarentee that you
will get them in two or three years. Some vendors do no longer exist
or no longer support that product.

Wasn't there some talk recently about standardizing the on-disk
format for both hardware and software RAID?

It's happening.

"SNIA" has created an on-disk format "DDF", which both software and 
hardware RAID vendors have pretty much all agreed to use.

Of course, the spec is not public yet, so who knows what they have 
agreed to...

	Jeff



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