On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Greg Freemyer wrote:
I don't know about your MB, but most onboard raid is fake-raid.
http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html
If yours is fake-raid and you don't need Windows dual boot capability, then using software raid is your preferred choice. ie. Fake raid does NOT offload any CPU load,
And that failure to offload any raid processing is a GOOD thing, as your CPU is vastly more powerful than all but the most expensive Raid Cards and software raid is fast, robust, flexible, an in most cases out-performs hardware raid. (When the raid card starts to cost more than your MOBO+CPU it MIGHT actually outperform software raid, but this is seldom born out for raids of the size the OP is contemplating.) -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org