From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Linux: Why software RAID? Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 04:19:38 -0400 Message-ID: <44ED611A.3090604@garzik.org> References: <44ED1E41.40606@garzik.org> <44ED2969.30606@sauce.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <44ED2969.30606@sauce.co.nz> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Richard Scobie Cc: Linux RAID Mailing List List-Id: linux-raid.ids Richard Scobie wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Mark Perkel wrote: >> >>> Running Linux on an AMD AM2 nVidia chip ser that supports Raid 0 >>> striping on the motherboard. Just wondering if hardware raid (SATA2) is >>> going to be faster that software raid and why? >> > > Jeff, on a slightly related note, is the driver status for the NVIDIA as > reflected on your site, correct for the new nForce 590/570 AM2 chipset? Unfortunately I rarely have an idea about how marketing names correlate to chipsets. Do you have a PCI ID (lspci -n)? Jeff