I remember there was a previous thread about a USB stick, but that involved physically removing the stick & making a copy.
Whatever happened to having a "live" 2nd copy?
You can still make a copy of a SATA DOM to a USB stick.
@scottalanmiller I have zero experience with XTB & that's what prompted my initial question.
That's worth something. I'm just wondering what we should be looking for. What's the proposed value. Without knowing that, it's easy to overlook during testing.
Does it have better performance & is it easier to setup?
That is all dependent on how comfortable you are with software / hardware raid.
Even for software RAID experts, hardware RAID is easier.
well yeah - it's practically plug and play - so few options.
Plus, in hardware RAID (assuming the chassis supports it) you get hot swap, something you don't get with Software RAID.
All enterprise software RAID has hot swap and always has. Only FakeRAID doesn't offer that and even that sometimes does. Hot swap is basically ubiquitous. Even ridiculous Windows software RAID has hot swap.
excuse me, I used the wrong term - I meant Blind swap - the lack of need to tell the OS to demount the drive before you pull it from the system.