RAID - software vs. hardware
- by Robert MacLean
I have always used hardware based raid because it (IMHO) it's on the right level (feel free to dispute this) and that OS failures are more common to me than hardware issues. Thus if the OS fails the raid is gone and so is the data, where on a hardware level regardless of OS the data remains.
However on a recent Stack Overflow podcast they stated they would not used hardware raid as the software raid is better developed and thus runs better.
So my question is, is there any reasons to choose one over the other?