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

["Keld Jørn Simonsen" <keld@dkuug.dk>]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:40:26PM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:
> Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> 
> >I would also welcome test with mobo HW RAID - Many mobo's today come
> >with some HW raid functionality, and many people would be in the
> >situation of whether to choose a HW or SW configuration.
> 
> 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.

It is possible that I am thinking of what you call fakeraid.

Anyway this is what many users buy and look at employing.
And my understanding is that you can set up the mobo controller in the
bios, and then have it running with Linux, without further software. 

I would then like to see what the differences are, and I hope to
document that Linux raid is better... Anyway I am first and foremost
just curious, and if HW/fake raid is faster or better, the I would
gladly recommend it.

best regards
keld
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