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From: Sean Cook <scook@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Sata controller for a backupserver!
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:04:41
Message-Id: 1114167880.27841.1.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] Sata controller for a backupserver! by maximilian sichart
1 On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 10:30 +0200, maximilian sichart wrote:
2 > Marcus Andersson wrote:
3 >
4 > >I have now looked a little at the 3ware-cards but of what I can find
5 > >they only makes raidcards and I only wanted a controllercard to get the
6 > >possebillity to attach more discs but I want to handle the raid myself
7 > >with software raid.
8 > >
9 > >
10 > software raid is a thing you should not do..
11
12 I don't necessarily agree. If you are IO bound and not CPU bound
13 software raid can give about a 30% increase in performance. The linux
14 software raid is remarkably stable and flexible. I have been running it
15 on just about everything for around 6 years.
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Re: [gentoo-server] Sata controller for a backupserver! Tomasz Lutelmowski <tomek@×××××.pl>