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This is why I still really can't trust a software raid all that much.


If by "software raid", you mean "MSWindows software raid", I'll agree. But the software raid under Solaris has as many features as any hardware RAID setup I've ever seen. It'll definitely automatically swap in a hot spare. It won't try a bad disk again, but I've never seen it label a disk as bad unless it really was bad, except when the cable got unplugged or something like that. And you can have as many hot spares set up as you want. And have them assigned to multiple RAID sets, so you can just have, say, two hot spares for five RAID sets and have them used appropriately.

All I'm saying is that you can't judge all software RAID based on one implementation.
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Bitt Faulk