“Last week we covered what Linux software RAID is good for and
not good for, and hardware RAID vs. software RAID. In a nutshell
it’s about getting good performance for just the cost of ordinary
inexpensive drives and controllers, and either increasing uptimes
or speeding up performance, or a bit of both. It is not a
substitute for the usual sensible failsafes like regular backups,
power protection, and terrorizing users into following … I mean
‘enforcing sane security policies.’“Hereinafter ‘Linux software RAID’ will be referred to by
various shorter terms, like plain old ‘RAID.’ I do not mean for
these shortcuts to refer to the entire RAID universe, just Linux
software RAID…”
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