Re: gvinum with RAID capable SATA card

2007-02-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
Garrett Cooper wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: However, if you've got a hardware RAID card, then you'll almost certainly be better off using it for doing RAID5 than doing it in software with gvinum. The RAID card will have hardware to do the parity calculations needed for RAID5 and offloading

Re: gvinum with RAID capable SATA card

2007-02-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
Garrett Cooper wrote: Hello, Motherboards usually don't support more than 2 SATA ports, and since SATA is 1:1, I have to invest in a SATA RAID card to get RAID-5 support. After reading the handbook a bit I came across chapter 19, which goes into some detail about why and how to the

Re: gvinum with RAID capable SATA card

2007-02-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
Matthew Seaman wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: Hello, Motherboards usually don't support more than 2 SATA ports, and since SATA is 1:1, I have to invest in a SATA RAID card to get RAID-5 support. After reading the handbook a bit I came across chapter 19, which goes into some detail about