Ariën Huisken wrote: >>Hi, >>i've found driver for that RAID here: >>http://www.techspot.com/drivers/driver/file/information/4490/SiS-RAID-Driver-for-Linux-kernel269-v269_10000 >>Do you think that software raid is fast enought >>and it's not worth to try to compile that driver ? > > > The chip is a fakeraid controller, so it uses the CPU for raid even with this > driver. > > I found out that fakeraid controllers run actually faster when using > the kernel > raid md functions instead of the driver for the chip, but you can of course > test it yourself and do a benchmark test.
Indeed, I think that's the current status. There have been spent a lot of time improving the kernel RAID code recently, and some benchmarks I read not long ago showed the performance of the SW-RAID surpasses many HW-RAIDs. Of course, this will cost you more CPU.
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