--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Sudheer Palaparambil"
<sudheer.clt@...> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> Which RAID is best suited for Firebird (Linux). Software or Hardware

We use software raid-5 , if motherboard is going away , then i can
trow drives in another system and life goes on.

Yes it could be slower than hw raid but cpu is doing nothing anyway on
server.

I religiously use raid-5 on data i care , too many drives die in an
terrible death. (Ibm Death Stars anyone ?)

A few weeks ago i replaced all system with another one moving only
the drives , We had
random crashes and seems that memory was the problem (bad memory) , In
the process
old system sparked some fire (short circuit). So i took the drives and
put them in my system with no problems then they landed the final
system (nforce2+amd barton2600+dual channel 1GByte memory as bonus)

In the end: Software Raid is better in some ways (it has some minuses
too: not so fast)