Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:31:12 -0700 | From | Joel Jaeggli <> | Subject | Re: Linux: Why software RAID? |
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Bill Davidsen wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > >> Ar Iau, 2006-08-24 am 07:31 -0700, ysgrifennodd Marc Perkel: >> >> >>> So - the bottom line answer to my question is that unless you are >>> running raid 5 and you have a high powered raid card with cache and >>> battery backup that there is no significant speed increase to use >>> hardware raid. For raid 0 there is no advantage. >>> >>> >> If your raid is entirely on PCI plug in cards and you are doing RAID1 >> there is a speed up using hardware assisted raid because of the PCI bus >> contention. >> > > I would expect to see this with RAID5 as well, for the same reason...
assuming you actually have lots of pci contention that might be a consideration... if you're sitting on server class hardware with multiple pci buses or using pci-express cards that won't be a significant issue.
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