From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@uoregon.edu>
To: Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, Andre Tomt <andre@tomt.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hardware vs. Software Raid Speed
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:13:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44ED358D.30602@uoregon.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44EC9699.3040001@perkel.com>
Marc Perkel wrote:
>
>
> Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Andre Tomt wrote:
>>> 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)
>>
>> SATA2 has nothing to do with hardware RAID.
>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> And, yeah, they're all software RAID. Also, there isn't much to be
>> gained from making RAID0/1 hardware. The software overhead isn't that
>> big. For RAID5, having XOR done in hardware helps.
>>
>
> Thanks - I suspected that Raid 0 didn't gain anything in hardware unless
> they provided additional buffering or something but I just thought I'd
> ask in case there was something I was overlooking.
A hardware raid controller can buy you a battery backed write cache, so
there are potentially some performance/safety benefits potentially.
We have a mix of software raid and 3ware based hardware raid subsystems.
For the applications we support, in general I can say that performance
was not the discriminating reason to choose one over the other.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-24 5:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-23 6:52 Hardware vs. Software Raid Speed Marc Perkel
2006-08-23 7:25 ` Andre Tomt
2006-08-23 8:39 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-08-23 17:47 ` Tejun Heo
2006-08-23 17:55 ` Marc Perkel
2006-08-24 5:13 ` Joel Jaeggli [this message]
2006-08-23 19:42 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
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