From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 5 08:07:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD43B16A4CE for ; Wed, 5 May 2004 08:07:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (u46n208.hfx.eastlink.ca [24.222.46.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E2BF43D1F for ; Wed, 5 May 2004 08:07:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DD49F39052; Wed, 5 May 2004 12:07:21 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC2CC39015 for ; Wed, 5 May 2004 12:07:21 -0300 (ADT) Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 12:07:21 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040505120521.L2736@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Hardware RAID vs Vinum? X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 15:07:24 -0000 Why one over the other? The main advantage I see to Vinum is that it makes doing stuff like firmware upgrades on a hard drive alot easier, since you see all the drives ... but, does paying a couple of hundred extra for a RAID controller give me any major advantages over that? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664