Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4344 mails)

[Hans du Plooy <hansdp-lists@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sandy Drobic wrote:

> > I'm beginning to wonder if it would be better just to use the raid 
> > controller as normal SATA controller (the card uses three Silicon 
> > Image 3112a controllers, which I know to work a lot faster), and 
> > create a software raid?
>
>
> I suspect the cpu of the raid controller is a bit weak. Software raid 
> would probably be a lot faster, but then you would lose the comfort of 
> hardware raid.

That's alright, the server is not mission critical - it is merely for 
storage of backups.

> Provided your server has the cpu power to spare.

That's the part I'm worried about.  If the hardware choices were mine, 
it would have been an Athlon with a 3ware card...

Thanks
Hans