Downside to Hardware RAID controllers[COLUG]

[Duane]

jep200404 wrote:
> Duane wrote:
> 
>> A downside to hardware raid is if the raid card blows, you need a
>> similar model although I think some companies were waking up to this
>> downside and using a more standardise[d] method that could be accessed or
>> something.
> 
> As soon as you get the hardware RAID card working, 
> but before you put it into production, 
> you buy backup cards, _test_ them, and stow them away for a rainy day. 

Yes, which is where double the price come in, not usually for a single
card on it's own which is what someone from an earlier post assumed I
meant, but by the time you have 2 of them you are usually up to the cost
of a low end server.

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