I would recommend software raid. Because it's made by some great folks in the linux community and it is a project in development (so you can get lots of support and updates, though it is very stable and is used in many prod systems).
Also the tool 'mdadm' combined with the output of /proc/mdstat gives a very good flexibility and ease of administering the raid. I wouldnt touch fakeraid, and i would only use hardware raid for a serious purpose (ie business) since it costs a lot and efficiency gain can only mean something in a serious project. (I'm using several raids on USB keys, dont laugh!, for my small 4gb EeePC, it raid6 has been working super fine on software linux raid). Simon On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Yahya Mohammad <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm setting up a new desktop machine with RAID 0. The motherboard I > bought supports the so-called "Fake" RAID, which offloads most of the > processing to the system CPU. What are the pros and cons of using this > as opposed to pure software RAID? > > -- When Earth was the only inhabited planet in the Galaxy, it was a primitive place, militarily speaking. The only weapon they had ever invented worth mentioning was a crude and inefficient nuclear-reaction bomb for which they had not even developed the logical defense. - Asimov
