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On 26/06/13 04:59, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 25/06/2013 21:10, Mick wrote: |
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>> Hi All, |
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>> I am considering my options for a new rig destined to last a few years and one |
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>> of the Dell machines on offer has this Intel SRT fake-raid feature, which |
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>> after some cursory googling, I am not entirely sure will work with Linux. |
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It will probably work quite well ... easy to set up, use and is reliable |
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... until the motherboard fails and you find that ALL your data is now |
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inaccessible until you buy a compatible motherboard ... which may not |
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exist! - been there, done that, never again :) From memory there was no |
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linux driver needed (it was all done in the chipset). |
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Use soft raid, its performance is at least as good (there was a report |
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saying it was usually better, even against some lower end dedicated raid |
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cards which were resource constrained), and its portable. |
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Thats not to say "dont use the box" - the disk interfaces are usually |
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very good performers in standard mode so just dont use the raid mode. |
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BillK |
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