RAID6? (was Re: Anyone Actually Using Virtual Linux Servers?)

[Derek Atkins]

Jarod Wilson <jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> writes:

> On Tuesday 11 September 2007 03:00:18 pm Jack Coats wrote:
>> Are there some RAID6 hardware (Adaptec or such) controller products
>> that someone would recommend?
>
> 3ware's latest series can do hardware RAID6 with SATA or SAS drives. Haven't 
> actually used one of their RAID6-capable cards, but have used a number of 
> their earlier cards and like them quite a bit (I have a 3ware 9500S-8 in my 
> myth backend).

Do you prefer a hardware RAID card over Linux S/W RAID?

I would think that at least with S/W raid you could add disks or
change the disk sizes to get additional space over time?

-derek
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