Re: Best 64 bit motherboard for linux today?

From: Anton Ertl (anton_at_mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at)
Date: 06/28/04 

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 05:47:09 GMT

Juhan Leemet <juhan@logicognosis.com> writes:
>On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 17:31:52 +0000, Anton Ertl wrote:
>> Concerning RAID, I would stay away from the "hardware" RAID on modern
>> boards. Better use just the Linux software RAID (md)...
>
>HW RAID5 has better performance, if RAID board has enough SCSI channels.

The on-motherboard RAID controllers I have seen support only RAID0 and
RAID1, and I was talking about them. Dedicated RAID controllers or a
RAID boxes that look like a single disk to the motherboard may be
worthwhile in some contexts (don't know enough about them).

- anton 

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