Re: Benchmarks: Linux Kernel RAID vs a Hardware RAID setup

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 01:03:53PM -0600, Maurice Hilarius wrote:
> Brad Campbell wrote:
> >Do you have some pointers for information on motherboards that come 
> >with hardware raid? I'd be interested to have a look at them. I've 
> >certainly seen plenty of "fakeraid" systems, but I've not yet come 
> >across hardware raid on an MB.
> >
> >Brad
> Quite a few server boards now offer the LSI RAID SAS chips.
> Most only do RAID 0,1,10 ( not 5 or 6)

It is my impression that many users want to employ raid, for safety, and
possibly speed. A popular choice is raid1. And there I would like to
advocate people to use raid10.

It looks like mobo raid1 is easier to use, tho.

Best regards
keld
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