Re: Linux: Why software RAID?

[Bill Davidsen]

Alan Cox wrote:

> Ar Iau, 2006-08-24 am 07:31 -0700, ysgrifennodd Marc Perkel:
>  
>
> > So - the bottom line answer to my question is that unless you are
> > running raid 5 and you have a high powered raid card with cache and
> > battery backup that there is no significant speed increase to use
> > hardware raid. For raid 0 there is no advantage.
> >
> >    
> If your raid is entirely on PCI plug in cards and you are doing RAID1
> there is a speed up using hardware assisted raid because of the PCI bus
> contention.

I would expect to see this with RAID5 as well, for the same reason...

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bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
 CTO TMR Associates, Inc
 Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

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