Put your Pro's and Con's for SoftwareRaid vs HardwareRaid here.

One persons opinion

<yem> gotta rebuild this mail server and i have now sworn off kernelraid <jsr> Ah, then ebay have some 2-channel units for, like, US$50 <Remosi> why? <yem> Remosi: its nice if you don't want to spend any money. but it can be a pain to sort out the lilo issues if you have to replace a drive or shift the drives to another box <Remosi> ahh excellent point

• Remosi goes and wiki's the answer

<yem> the existing mailserver has hda and hdc in raid1. when i move those drives to another box (same channels, etc) it wont boot <Remosi> hmm <Remosi> I wonder why <yem> yeah <yem> nice while it works.. <Remosi> yah <yem> one server here is going on 18 months old on kernelraid <yem> it has kept the system up under disc failure at least once

GlennRamsey's opinion:

On my home office box the backups have become too large for writing to CDRWs so I installed a second hard drive and faubackup. Faubackup runs as a daily (ana)cron job and this works OK except that when doing the backup the machine becomes sluggish. Hence I'm thinking about using RAID 1 instead. Browsing through the HOWTO's and docs on the web its seems that software RAID is a bit tricky to set up and is something that you should only do if you know exactly what you are doing. Given that a RAID card is quite cheap now it would seem that software RAID is a poor choice for the user who has better things to do than wrestle with the configuration of software RAID.