classiccmp server hardware

Everyone who is talking about "software raid is ok because I've used it without trouble"... that's a pretty insufficient argument. Kinda like someone saying "Oh, you can format double density floppies to single density and it works great because I did it". B.S. - a little education and you'd see why it's precarious. I've seen people who argue about that because they have "proof it works fine". Just wait till a few months go by and their data doesn't appear anymore :) Not that software raid doesn't work, it does, and quite well. But all I'm saying is a better argument might sway me. That one doesn't. Look at what has to happen with software raid. The software has to set up twice as many DMA transfers, handle twice as many interrupts, block waiting on I/O twice as many times, and send double the data across the bus. I'm aghast that many of the classiccmp'ers here aren't revolted by that just on principle. The same mentality got us MS/Windows "Oh, don't worry about the cpu cycles, it's just trivial to add this little pop-up box...". Trivial adds up. Jay "vying for freds 'grumpy old' title" West