On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Wolfgang Liebich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
Hi, I've got 4 regular 500gb SATA drives in a linux software RAID5 (BIOS fakeraid disabled), not using LVM, and with a AES dmcrypt on top of it, and the performance is really good in my opinion. The encrypted RAID has a faster read speed than a single, non-RAID, non-encrypted SATA drive of the same model. Obviously with the encryption & parity calculations the writes are not as fast, but it's still 25 megabytes per second write speed which seems pretty good to me. I have a Core 2 E6600 (overclocked to 3ghz). The time to rebuild the RAID after a system failure for this 4x500gb is about 90 minutes. Good luck, Paul
