[Coco] CF and SD life expectancy

[Frank Pittel]

I've found that with Linux the software raid (md and lvm) performs as well or better then
the hardware raid provided on motherboards. I tried using the onboard hardware raid and it
left a lot to be desired.

The Other Frank

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:04:05PM -0400, Marc Charbonneau wrote:
> > Important lesson:  Hardware RAID is terrific when it works.  When the
> > controller dies, however, your data is held hostage.  With Linux software
> > RAID, all you need is another machine with multiple ports.
> That's the reason I dropped hardware RAID and only use Linux software RAID now.
> 
> And mdadm can email you when there is a failure in your array.
> 
> And if you're wondering about performance, I use it with Asterisk and
> manage to record conference calls without dropping anything, even on
> an early P4.
> 
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