On 26/06/13 04:59, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 25/06/2013 21:10, Mick wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I am considering my options for a new rig destined to last a few years and >> one >> of the Dell machines on offer has this Intel SRT fake-raid feature, which >> after some cursory googling, I am not entirely sure will work with Linux. >
It will probably work quite well ... easy to set up, use and is reliable ... until the motherboard fails and you find that ALL your data is now inaccessible until you buy a compatible motherboard ... which may not exist! - been there, done that, never again :) From memory there was no linux driver needed (it was all done in the chipset). Use soft raid, its performance is at least as good (there was a report saying it was usually better, even against some lower end dedicated raid cards which were resource constrained), and its portable. Thats not to say "dont use the box" - the disk interfaces are usually very good performers in standard mode so just dont use the raid mode. BillK
