Previously pivo said:
Thanks for the information...
So, essentially if I have a big raid array sitting off of my
motherboard's raid controller I can't really change motherboards
without big hassle of moving data somewhere safe, reformatting the
array and moving data back in.
Exactly. And a real risk of loosing the data if the mainboard breaks.
One of the reasons I don't like hardware-RAID: You need to have a
spare controller or you are at least locked-in to one manufacturer.
If you know what you are doing, you can usually still recover an array
without the original hardware, but people that use these low-cost
RAIDs often do not know and can only try to buy the same hardware
that just broke on them again. Not pretty at all.
What was these freaking manufactures were thinking about?
The usual: Screwing over the customer if profitable as long
as the customer does not notice too early. One of the pleasures
of "Industry Standards". _I_ can recover my LINUX software
RAIDs on any computer I can connect enough of the drives to or
even with several computers connected over a network. Of course
that does not sound right to hardware-RAID vendors. After all
you would not be vendor-locked anymore.
Sorry for the rant, thanks for the anwer ...
No problem on both counts.
Arno
