From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keld =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rn?= Simonsen Subject: Re: Benchmarks: Linux Kernel RAID vs a Hardware RAID setup Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:15:31 +0200 Message-ID: <20080715201531.GC26439@rap.rap.dk> References: <1216130769.5633.318.camel@sam.localdomain> <20080715163932.GA23164@rap.rap.dk> <487CEF1A.6050402@wasp.net.au> <487CF499.6080105@harddata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <487CF499.6080105@harddata.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Maurice Hilarius Cc: Brad Campbell , Ben Martin , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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