> The only reason I considered the motherboard RAID was that I could have
> an XP partition and install an ext2 driver to access my Gentoo
> partitions. As far as I know, a filesystem in a linux software raid
> cannot be accessed from windows.
>
> After reading the replies here, I'm going to go ahe
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 05:35:45PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> There are no pros that I have ever seen and plenty of cons. Notably -
> performance sucks.
First, thanks very much to everyone who replied.
The only reason I considered the motherboard RAID was that I could have
an XP partition a
Ok,
1. Motherboard Raid is often "Fake Raid"
2. In Gentoo the Software Raid fucntions for Linux are probably faster than
your motherboard's
3. Having had and seen issues with mother board raid I'd suggest using the
mdtools. Since there is a FAR LARGER support base; that way if somthing goes
awry y
On Monday 27 April 2009 14:18:39 Yahya Mohammad wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm setting up a new desktop machine with RAID 0. The motherboard I
> bought supports the so-called "Fake" RAID, which offloads most of the
> processing to the system CPU. What are the pros and cons of using this
> as opposed to
> It has survived several crashes/power outages. For my RAID5 (four
> 500gb drives) it took about 90 minutes for the raid to verify after
> such incidents. I know there are benefits to hardware RAID but for low
> cost/low importance (it's my home PC) the software RAID is good enough
> for me.
Soft
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Simon wrote:
> I would recommend software raid. Because it's made by some great
> folks in the linux community and it is a project in development (so
> you can get lots of support and updates, though it is very stable and
> is used in many prod systems).
I'm usin
I would recommend software raid. Because it's made by some great
folks in the linux community and it is a project in development (so
you can get lots of support and updates, though it is very stable and
is used in many prod systems).
Also the tool 'mdadm' combined with the output of /proc/mdstat
On Montag 27 April 2009, Andrei Susnea wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:18:39 +0400, Yahya Mohammad wrote:
> >> I'm setting up a new desktop machine with RAID 0. The motherboard I
> >> bought supports the so-called "Fake" RAID, which offloads most of the
> >> processing to t
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:18:39 +0400, Yahya Mohammad wrote:
I'm setting up a new desktop machine with RAID 0. The motherboard I
bought supports the so-called "Fake" RAID, which offloads most of the
processing to the system CPU. What are the pros and cons of using this
as o
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:18:39 +0400, Yahya Mohammad wrote:
> I'm setting up a new desktop machine with RAID 0. The motherboard I
> bought supports the so-called "Fake" RAID, which offloads most of the
> processing to the system CPU. What are the pros and cons of using this
> as opposed to pure sof
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