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Subject: Re: HPT370 RAID-1 or Software RAID-1, what's "best"?
To: thunder@ngforever.de (Thunder from the hill)
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 18:53:11 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nitrax@giron.wox.org (Martin Eriksson)
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> Software RAID is just your disk configuration. But I'd recommend
> hardware raid because the rebuild after one disk crash is dog slow with
> software raid. This problem been discussed in all possible linux
> magazines...

The raid rebuild time is identical for pretty much any set up. With the
softraid its intentionally defaulting to a low fraction of I/O bandwidth
so it doesnt disrupt normal operation.

Also as far is his question goes - both are software raid
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