Hardware RAID vs Vinum?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Wednesday,  5 May 2004 at 11:18:14 -0400, Don Bowman wrote:
> From: Marc G. Fournier 
>> Why one over the other?
>>
>> The main advantage I see to Vinum is that it makes doing stuff like
>> firmware upgrades on a hard drive alot easier, since you see all the
>> drives ... but, does paying a couple of hundred extra for a RAID
>> controller give me any major advantages over that?
>
> Devices like aac have a cam passthrough (aacp) which allows
> firmware upgrades and smartmontools etc to work.
>
> the advantage to the hardware raid is that you can make the
> root partition be on the raid, so the machine will still boot
> if a drive fails, where with vinum, you cannot do that.

No, that's not correct.  If a drive fails, you can still boot from the
remaining drive.

Greg
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