[Cialug] sata raid

[david l goodrich]

On Tue, June 12, 2007 9:02 am, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 June 2007 08:39, dave at 58ghz.net wrote:
>>I also considered the software raid. It would be
>>suited to my needs, but I felt that recovery from a
>>drive failure would be faster and easier with a
>>hardware solution.
>
> With hardware RAID it may be easier to recover from drive failure, but
> how easy is it to recover from a controller failure? If recovery is
> difficult, does it matter (i.e., how probable is a controller failure
> versus drive failures)?
>

So what's the story with recovering from a controller failure?  I know
software raid can be recovered by configuring it identically on another
computer.  Can you just drop in another controller when the first one
dies?
  --david