Lennart Sorensen wrote: > I think most of them can do volumes on a raid, which is essentially > partitions. They show up as seperate drives then. Of course you can > also partition the raid device since it is just a disk to the OS.
No. That's different from what Linux software raid can do. Linux software raid can say, "ok, use sda1, sdb1, sdc1, sdd1 as raid1; sda2, sdb2, sdc2 as RAID-5 with sdd2 as a hot spare; and finally, sda3, sdb3, sdc3, and sdd3 as raid0". Most hardware raid can't do that. > I was told by a 3ware dealer that many of their users run linux software > raid on their 12 port cards, because they find with a modern cpu linux > software raid beats the 3ware hardware raid chip. So they use it as a > single card 12 driver sata controller instead. Interesting. I have several 3ware 9000s in the field, never tried that... > The hardware raid was easier to manage though. Definitely. Especially with libata's hot-swap deficiencies. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
