Re: Pulling disk out of the RAID 5 Array?

["Steve Wolfe" <nw@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Secondly, the choice to make next is hardware or software raid. Hardware
> raid is nice because the OS handles less, or none, of the burden of
> rebuilding the array should a failure occurr.

  One more note, in a RAID 5 configuration, the hardware controller will
also do the checksumming, removing that task from the CPU as well - and
the checksumming can be considerable on heavy writes.  Myself, I would not
use software RAID 5 on a machine unless it either had very little CPU
usage, or had multiple processors.  Levels 1 and 0, though, are different
matters.

steve