I am the opposite... I am more afraid that the software raid is going to stop working and I will be left with a bunch of bricks. I am much less concerned that the raid card will fail then I am that the SW Raid will get screwed up.
Even with software raid, we still have the same question...
I have no problem with a software solution, at least for the management of the LUNs and the iSCSI support (I do want HW RAID)... this is what I have now. Ideally I would switch to openfiler from the current linux install I am using, but that is more from a curiosity perspective than anything...
I currently have a 4u server that has two 6 disk RAID 5 arrays in it and they are a few years old and I need to expand the storage. I would like to remove one of the arrays from the 4u server and stick it in another box that would be capabable of holding 15 SATA disks. Ideally the other box...
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