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On 10/10/06, gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net> wrote:
I guess I can see this being kind of convenient on a workstation
with RAIDed disks when the user wants to swap the motherboard out
but keep their data... so, um, yeah. I have a very hard time caring
about that case. RAID for workstations is like getting a vault door
on your apartment. Sure, it provides greater reliability of your
data / physical security, but you could just actually do backups
of the data that actually matters / make friends with your neighbors.
Maybe I'm missing something... why would YOU want this?
Haha. Good question. I guess the best reason would be to provide a
standard way to boot software raid sets. So not any good reason for
such a complicated spec (which is actually fairly unlikely to catch on
with software "raid chip" vendors anyway).
Then again, even those with daily backups might not like the idea of
loosing a day's worth of work/data if the raid controller does freak
out at a bad time. Not the kinda thing that would be at the center of
my purchasing decisions, but a nice touch. Just to know that I could
use another controller to get my data if I had to.
--
Will Dyson
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