Re: Hardware vs. Software Raid Speed

Andre Tomt
2006-08-23T07:25:54Z

Marc 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?

Beeing a consumer type board (AM2), the "raid on the motherboard" is in
99.999% of the cases just software raid implemented in their Windows
drivers, a bootup setup screen plus some BIOS magic to get the OS booting.