Re: A bit off topic
With the hardware RAID you have to trust the handfull (if lucky, probably just one guy)) who really understands the "firmware" if you are in real trouble, late at night, that is not a good place to be!. I have forced individual sectors to "act" as good with the help of mdadm and assorted disk tools, i have rescued a raid5 array by hand picking bad sectors and forced rebuilding!!...... When that shit mounted at boot and was R/W was the best moment of my professional life!!! Pheeeewi!! I could NEVER have done that shit with crippled "firmware UI from DELL inc!""