Hi guys, I've had some experience in the past with software (BIOS) RAID. Obviously there would be a big performance difference with hardware vs BIOS RAID. Has anyone done any benchmarks to the effect of BIOS vs linux kernel RAID?
Thanks, D Wolfgang Liebich wrote: > Hi, > I'm in the process of setting up a new private computer. I've bought one > with two drives b/c I wanted to setup a RAID system - RAID1 for > important partitions, RAID0 for scratch files maybe. > Additionally I would like to use LVM2 --- on my work PC I've grown to > like the flexibility of that. > The Intel DQ35JO motherboard now supports some kind of mobo based RAID. > Is it better to use this HW raid, or to ignore that and use only the > linux kernel's software RAID. > Additionally the LVM2 utilities seem to have limited mirroring/striping > capabilities of their own - I only want to use RAID levels 0 and 1 > anyways -- would LVM's methods be better here? > > Inquiring mind wants to know! > - Wolfgang Liebich > >
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