Hardware vs software RAID (was: RAID Controllers and Linux)

[Ben Scott]

On 6/29/07, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> Software RAID in Linux handles this quite well.
>
> The process was:
>   * see the drive fail in logs

  One thing I liked about the MegaRAID setups we had was that the steps were:

Hear loud beeping coming from the buzzer on the card
Note flashing red light on failed drive
Yank drive and pop in new one
Go back to playing Starcraft

  ;-)

>   * shutdown the system when the drive arrives

  Ewwww.  I thought you could do hotswap with Linux software RAID?

-- Ben