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> But, again, this is very low end to middle end 'hardware raid'. It's single-digit disk stuff. It's a cheapo PCI card in a cheapo server. You can multiplex hu
by vardump 7y ago
> But, again, this is very low end to middle end 'hardware raid'. It's single-digit disk stuff. It's a cheapo PCI card in a cheapo server.
You can multiplex hundreds of disks across multiple SAS backplanes. And, yeah, those software RAID [0] systems are really cheap. :-)
Software RAID is deployed in low end systems, sure. But also in very high end systems where compromises can't be made. And anywhere in between.
[0]: For example, see: https://www.oracle.com/storage/nas/zs7-2/ https://www.oracle.com/storage/nas/zs7-2/