Re: OT: silent data corruption reading from hard drives

[Iustin Pop <iusty@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 02:06:34PM +0600, Roman Mamedov wrote:
> I do not recommend using hardware RAID. It locks you into one card/vendor,
> usually is much less flexible than mdadm, and often even provides lower
> performance. See http://linux.yyz.us/why-software-raid.html

While that *can* be the case, I haven't ever seen md beating a HW RAID
adapter with battery-backed write-cache in certain metadata-intensive
workloads, so as usual it depends on what kind of HW raid you have, and
what performance you measure. Broad descriptions are not very helpful.

regards,
iustin
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