[ale] raid suggestions

[Lightner, Jeff]

So you can disassemble all the components in the systems you buy and do chip or board level debugging of all components including DIMMs, CPUs and motherboards?  Of all the reasons I've seen for not using hardware RAID this one seems to be the biggest red herring of all.





-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of mike at trausch.us
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 9:48 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] raid suggestions

On 02/12/2012 11:59 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Add to it that pretty much ALL hardware RAID is closed proprietary
> stuff. I can't trust what I can't open and evaluate. And I sure don't
> like having my feet to the fire for something I really can't fix.

+1, a thousand times over.

        --- Mike

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