On Tuesday 25 Jun 2013 23:13:24 William Kenworthy wrote: > 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).
Ha! In my enthusiasm I forgot the basics! I am thinking though that SSD caching will only ever work in MSWindows with the dedicated Intel driver, not in Linux (at least not until someone writes a driver for it). I was going to overcome this eventuality by installing Gentoo on the SSD and mirroring it on the HD somehow - not sure how at this moment. > 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. I don't really need RAID, but want to safeguard my SSD installed OS, ideally automatically so. -- Regards, Mick
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