Re: Hardware RAID vs. Software RAID

Jack Wang wrote:

>Could someone provide some thoughts on hardware RAID vs. software RAID? What
>I understand is that we should implement hardware RAID in the first place
>and use software RAID where hardware RAID is not feasible?
>
>Is Veritas Volume Manager one kind of software RAID?
>
>Thanks.
>- Jack
>
>

You are correct on all points.

But what version you implement can make a big difference. I'd stay away from RAID 5 and vendor RAID
implementations with numbers like 2 and 4.

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