From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Pqg1H-0000tV-Aq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 06:10:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F29FCE0517; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 06:08:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA6D9E0517 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 06:08:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 173111B4077 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 06:08:47 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.525 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.525 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.074, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 5vNqtY3x+jMq for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 06:08:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9942B1B406C for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 06:08:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pqfzf-00058C-NR for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 07:08:35 +0100 Received: from rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com ([71.40.157.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 07:08:35 +0100 Received: from wireless by rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 07:08:35 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: james Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: dual boot RAID Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 06:08:24 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: 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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.40.157.251 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101214 Gentoo/2.0.11 SeaMonkey/2.0.11) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d5336c409e8d59d5cf7c09da85c7540d Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: > I guess the one thing above I'm not clear about is your choice of what > appears to be RAID 0? RAID 0 is hardly RAID as there's no redundancy. > Lose 1 drive you lose all your data. Also, if you're doing Linux RAID > then the MB chipset RAID stuff is immaterial. You're going to do it > using mdadm software RAID which then has no impact on what Windows > does. Well, I meant mirroring. I'm reading up on RAID for linux.... Gotta lot to learn and figure out. > Processor choice makes little impact on how Linux RAID works. Faster > is better. AMD or Intel is your choice. Yea, that was fishing for comment on the MSI mobo. Agreed that Intel/AMD make no difference. Once I do some more research, I'll post on a new thread. thx, James