Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 09:17:03 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware RAID vs Vinum? Message-ID: <20040505234703.GG61687@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337045D8C88@mail.sandvine.com> References: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337045D8C88@mail.sandvine.com>
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--Cp3Cp8fzgozWLBWL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wednesday, 5 May 2004 at 11:18:14 -0400, Don Bowman wrote: > From: Marc G. Fournier=20 >> 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? > > Devices like aac have a cam passthrough (aacp) which allows > firmware upgrades and smartmontools etc to work. > > the advantage to the hardware raid is that you can make the > root partition be on the raid, so the machine will still boot > if a drive fails, where with vinum, you cannot do that. No, that's not correct. If a drive fails, you can still boot from the remaining drive. Greg -- Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --Cp3Cp8fzgozWLBWL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAmXz3IubykFB6QiMRAlSLAJ0aDibUSoLG4Dh+aYMNx60KfHtokgCcCJKI V1q8Oj1h3dzHiIEMpVrAKno= =Mw7f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Cp3Cp8fzgozWLBWL--
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