--- Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm in need of setting up RAID for my recordings > drive since now I'm able to > capture 2 HD + 1SD at a time, plus want to be able > to do commercial flagging, > and for the time being, playback at least 1 HD > stream. > > I ordered 2 new harddrives which, while different > than my current recordings > drive are the same size, so if needed I can use all > three. > > My question is, would it be better to use the > onboard RAID controller on my > motherboard or the software RAID linux has? > > I plan on doing a RAID0 since I'm not too worried > about loosing my data, but > more worried about overall speed. I plan on backing > up any recordings I want > to save to another drive (which hopefully will be a > RAID5 as my next drive > project). > > Thanks for the help! > -- > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > It really depends on the controller itself.
Most of the controllers included on motherboards nowadays are just software-based controllers anyway, so you'd be using CPU horsepower to control them. I did some research into this when my employer was looking to rebuild a server - he wanted to go SATA hardware RAID, so we now have a nice expensive 3ware card. Here's a page with some information about SATA RAID, with cards listed by hardware RAID or software RAID (aka fakeraid): http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html -- Joe __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
