Messages in this thread | | | From | (Måns Rullgård) | Subject | Re: Software RAID5 with 2.6.0-test | Date | Fri, 17 Oct 2003 21:52:17 +0200 |
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Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net> writes:
>> > many clock cycles availble to it. It's even worse when you realize >> > the 2Ghz xeon is a better proccessor in many more ways than just >> > clock cycles. >> >> How about this logic: >> >> 1) If the processor on the RAID controller can handle the full >> bandwidth of the disks, it's fast enough. >> 2) If someone else does the 10% work, the CPU can do 10% more work. > > 3) You have a four year old machine - one day the RAID controller dies. > The company that produced it has been acquired by someone else, and > the product is no longer availble. Can you get a new adapter with > firmware that can actually read your disks? Or are your data lost? > Can you find a replacement controller on e-bay? And would you want > to?
What are backups for? That argument applies to any controller, for anything. What if you wanted to read those old 8" floppies? Or that hard disk from the PDP/11.
If a four year old RAID controller breaks, maybe it's time to get new disks anyway.
-- Måns Rullgård mru@users.sf.net
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