Re: onboard LAN or add-on card?

From: Steve Wolfe (unt_at_codon.com)
Date: 07/06/04 

Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 22:35:18 -0600

> I'm building a linux server and have one questions:
>
> Should i use a mothorboard with a build in LAN and RAID
> or buy one without and use an add-on card?
>
> This is a low end server that will be at home but uptime is
> important and I don't want many problems with it.
>
> I'm planning on getting an Intel MB.

   I've got quite a good number of machines (servers and workstations) using
onboard LAN, and I've never thought twice about it. In several decades of
watching hardware fail, I've never once had a reason to worry about onboard
LAN cards (or any other LAN cards) dying.

   The onboard RAID cards on most boards don't really implement RAID in
hardware, they just have a special firmware that works with your software
drivers to do some/most of the RAID functionality. You'd be no worse off
(and perhaps better off) just using Linux's software-RAID implementation.

steve

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