[COLUG] SATA RAID controllers for Linux

[Duane]

Brian McDonald wrote:

> In the end, I think the free market has answered the question by giving us 
> both hardware and software RAID solutions, saying, in effect "depends on your 
> situation."

Let me rephrase, I can effectively buy twice as much hardware now, as a
single server + hardware raid solution, I also find throwing as much ram
as possible at servers tends to alleviate a lot of DB IO wait issues
when you properly tune the database.

As you said, depends on the situation, but it seems to me the money is
better spent on double the hardware then hardware raid in most cases.

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