Re: Is Solaris 10 a good home os?

On 2007-04-10 14:59:52 +0100, Miroslav Zubcic <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

Something broken on them? I never saw problematic HW RAID (even IBM works).

No, I'd just much rather use SW on system disks - partly because I always have (being a Sun person) but also having watched (& experienced in some cases) endless sagas of doom and loss with Linux & Windows boxes with system disks mirrored with HW RAID where either no one realised until too late that a disk had died, or they did realise but it turns out the RAID controller wasn't too good at letting you actually replace a failed disk (both of these were with systems made by a very reputable manufacturer). I reckon that the kind of RAID controller I trust is the kind where I can log into it to see what it's doing.

(So really just bias, I admit. But what are we but a bundle of biasses?)

--tim

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