On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Greg Freemyer wrote: > I don't know about your MB, but most onboard raid is fake-raid. > > http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html > > If yours is fake-raid and you don't need Windows dual boot capability, > then using software raid is your preferred choice. ie. Fake raid does > NOT offload any CPU load,
And that failure to offload any raid processing is a GOOD thing, as your CPU is vastly more powerful than all but the most expensive Raid Cards and software raid is fast, robust, flexible, an in most cases out-performs hardware raid. (When the raid card starts to cost more than your MOBO+CPU it MIGHT actually outperform software raid, but this is seldom born out for raids of the size the OP is contemplating.) -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
