[asterisk-users] Saftware RAID1 or Hardware RAID1 with Asterisk

[Gordon Henderson]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Steven wrote:

> For RAID1, I am not sure.
>
> But for RAID 5, You should always use hardware RAID.
>
> If you use software RAID and your CPU spikes for too long, you can 
> corrupt your disks. I have seen this several times.

Please report this to the linux-raid mailling list, especially if you can 
repeat it.

But I have to say, I've been using linux-raid for 8 years on some 
seriously overused/abused servers and *never* had disk corruption in all 
those years that I couldn't track down to a hardware problem.

Gordon