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From: "J. Ryan Earl" <heretic@clanhk.org>
To: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux SATA RAID FAQ
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 18:31:44 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <411D5D70.9070909@clanhk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040812113413.GA19252@alpha.home.local>

Willy Tarreau wrote:

>I like it. It's fairly simple. I'm always amazed how many people do really
>believe that these cards provide hardware RAID !!! The problem is when you
>ask a reseller to add a real hardware RAID card in a system you purchase
>and you end up with a cheap silicon image... It happened to us once and it's
>not funny at all.
>
On the brightside, md raid5 is often faster than hardware raid5.  At 
least on the 7000 and 8000 series of 3ware hardware; the 9000 series 
looks promising though.  I haven't seen megaraid SATA numbers, and I 
don't know what happened to the SX8.

When the libata Marvell drivers come out, you'll have a cheap upgrade 
path for PCI-X boards if you want fast md raid: 
http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/DAC-SATA-MV8.cfm  
$100 to add 8 unbottlenecked SATA ports to your server motherboard.

-ryan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-13 23:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-12  6:33 Linux SATA RAID FAQ Jeff Garzik
2004-08-12  7:18 ` Michael Knigge
2004-08-12 11:17   ` Paul Ionescu
2004-08-12 11:17     ` Paul Ionescu
2004-08-12 11:34 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-08-12 13:38   ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-08-12 12:56     ` Alan Cox
2004-08-12 17:23       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-12 17:30         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-14 21:49           ` Alan Cox
2004-08-14 22:56             ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-15 20:54             ` Xavier Bestel
2004-08-15 20:51               ` Alan Cox
2004-08-15 22:02                 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2004-08-15 21:42               ` Jakob Oestergaard
2004-08-16 22:06       ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-16 21:58         ` Alan Cox
2004-08-16 22:10         ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-12 14:01     ` Alistair John Strachan
2004-08-14  0:31   ` J. Ryan Earl [this message]
2004-08-14  3:17     ` Mark Lord
2004-08-14  6:37       ` age huisman
2004-08-14 11:03         ` Mark Lord
2004-08-14 15:21     ` Alan Cox
2004-08-14 22:28       ` J. Ryan Earl
2004-08-12 18:09 ` Martin Schlemmer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-12 13:46 Dieter Stueken

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