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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-13 23:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ 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 11:34 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-08-14 0:31 ` J. Ryan Earl [this message]
2004-08-14 15:21 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-14 22:28 ` J. Ryan Earl
2004-08-12 18:09 ` Martin Schlemmer
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