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[ILUG] Speccing a new PC

[ILUG] Speccing a new PC

Pádraig Brady P at draigBrady.com
Fri Sep 24 11:01:04 IST 2010


On 23/09/10 15:22, Niall O Broin wrote:
> On 23 Sep 2010, at 15:01, Lance Dryden wrote:
> 
>> On 09/17/2010 09:39, kevin wrote:
>>>
>>> For RAID we use software RAID with LVM on top. We looked at hardware
>>> raid
> 
> I've been ranting about this for ever, so here we go again. ALL RAID is software - the only question is where the software runs

I agree with that sentiment of course.
But I think it's useful to label stuff as software, firmware, hardware,
as then one is immediately aware of the implementation and
its inherent (dis)advantages.

http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/firmware.html

cheers,
Pádraig.


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