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Hi guys, |
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I've had some experience in the past with software (BIOS) RAID. |
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Obviously there would be a big performance difference with hardware vs |
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BIOS RAID. Has anyone done any benchmarks to the effect of BIOS vs |
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linux kernel RAID? |
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Thanks, |
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Wolfgang Liebich wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm in the process of setting up a new private computer. I've bought one |
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> with two drives b/c I wanted to setup a RAID system - RAID1 for |
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> important partitions, RAID0 for scratch files maybe. |
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> Additionally I would like to use LVM2 --- on my work PC I've grown to |
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> like the flexibility of that. |
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> The Intel DQ35JO motherboard now supports some kind of mobo based RAID. |
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> Is it better to use this HW raid, or to ignore that and use only the |
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> linux kernel's software RAID. |
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> Additionally the LVM2 utilities seem to have limited mirroring/striping |
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> capabilities of their own - I only want to use RAID levels 0 and 1 |
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> anyways -- would LVM's methods be better here? |
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> Inquiring mind wants to know! |
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> - Wolfgang Liebich |
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