From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kq6L6-0005zx-Ee for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:23:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 30A48E0438; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:22:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.186]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0D99E0438 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:22:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c7so1328706nfi.26 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:22:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=sWx6qDmp6Lm86ndmjFppF8DXG2AIfQHwaw36boCtAbo=; b=tAIVYgQ7dChRqkV97nFxUkd1vE8YsZDeo7wJ/MLThySERVGJw1WrX+eLg/R6C6x2z0 fGJSAEJ08WyI0DCGJ2h1ETtPHyXozAh8l3DuDYh6mIIIbwyXxmNUJmSGUPoukL/S5c5s +lHLbhv0C0l0G2WlORNt9umFGQzyCO9hCXf8s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=jWQqJPJrhxNXktu94y44aPiR0IB6byqZ9W6LqjgD8wnUIEF+5mP9PuVTJjTG7pS6l7 TU0CWUoc3okcbtUbexfGSspkuo6/M2e7u36JJlhwkmeWjBvgVMLruoqgZSzVwQDGvQLZ lbKoJ8124+WzzYgth/tIlz6D7XuiSukfRXw00= Received: by 10.210.59.14 with SMTP id h14mr1154568eba.169.1224076974823; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:22:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.1.245.102? (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g9sm17160714gvc.0.2008.10.15.06.22.50 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:22:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID? Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:22:46 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <48F5EB5C.4020402@siemens.com> <48F5EC89.9050704@tibyke.hu> In-Reply-To: <48F5EC89.9050704@tibyke.hu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810151522.46789.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 190f0d1e-ac9f-42e4-9e29-f71c37911447 X-Archives-Hash: 6d9d0969f9f249add45f586be537a871 On Wednesday 15 October 2008 15:13:45 Pint=E9r Tibor wrote: > > I'm in the process of setting up a new private computer. I've bought one > > with two drives b/c I wanted to setup a RAID system - RAID1 for > > important partitions, RAID0 for scratch files maybe. > > Additionally I would like to use LVM2 --- on my work PC I've grown to > > like the flexibility of that. > > The Intel DQ35JO motherboard now supports some kind of mobo based RAID. > > Is it better to use this HW raid, or to ignore that and use only the > > linux kernel's software RAID. > > thats not hardware raid, it never was, it never will be. Rule of thumb: =46or any machine you buy to use at home, dump the on-board RAID and use Li= nux=20 software raid instead. Reason: kernel raid works, that on-board crap doesn't Other reason: real hardware raid costs many times more than that entire=20 computer you bought for home use =2D-=20 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com