Am Donnerstag, den 07.02.2008, 16:45 +1100 schrieb Gabriel Noronha: <snip> > Is there a linux software raid which is nicer than the one which has to > work with windows ?
Yes. There are a few good howtos out there. I found this one on the Ubuntu forums - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=408461&highlight=raid+howto I've never used RAID myself, though, because I don't think it makes much sense in the home user setting. It just adds another layer of complexity to your system that could be a source of problems, while offering little in the way of extra performance. > 2nd question will installing 64bit ubuntu make vmware more buggy ? Quite the opposite, I would have thought. One of the things that the 64-bit environment has over the 32-bit is that it's supposed to make virtualisation perform better. Running 64-bit Ubuntu brings its own problems, though, especially when it comes to software compatibility. I installed 64-bit during the Edgy release cycle and found that you need to go through a lot of workarounds to get things like browser plugins and some multimedia codecs to work properly. This is because a lot of this software is not available in 64-bit versions or, if it is, it lacks important functionality. In the end I thought the extra effort wasn't worth it and went back to 32-bit, where 99% of home users are, anyway. You might think differently if you do lots of media encoding or other CPU-intensive tasks or you need to address more than 64GB of RAM. btw, when I can get around to it I'm going to install WinXP in a VM using Virtualbox, which is supposed to be easier to set up than vmware. > Aside question since every 2nd new motherboard these days ships with > "RAID" why is it so hard to set it up on Ubuntu. You don't have to use the RAID if you don't want to. I have 2 SATA disks in my desktop and I just disabled the RAID ROM in the BIOS. The disks just run as 2 separate, 'ordinary' SATA drives. -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
