[Techtalk] RAID data recovery w/ hardware controller

[Carla Schroder]

Another RAID question- suppose you have a nice hardware RAID controller and it 
fails. How do you recover your data? Do you need an identical controller to 
replace it, or can the disks be read by some other means? I'm figuring out 
the pros and cons with Linux software RAID; with Linux RAID you can stuff 
your drives in any Linux box and re-construct the array, assuming the drives 
are not damaged and the data not corrupted. Very nice for moving to a new 
box, or recovering from some other component failure that doesn't affect the 
hard drives.

Carla
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