-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2008-09-21 at 07:38 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
Exactly, this is why. Real hardware raid is faster, there is no intervention from the cpu. All is done by the card hardware.
No one was disputing the superiority of hardware RAID over software RAID, but hardware RAID was not among the options being compared.
Then let me put it in different words: there being no speed advantage of fake raid over software raid, the choice is obvious: either full hardware, or full software. I was not propossing to use full hardware.
Therefore
HWR not relevant, so nothing can flow from the point.
PFFFFF! Common, get real. If you take things like that, aggressively, then I'll put my opinion bluntly: It is relevant. I don't consider fake raid as an option. I want either real hardware raid, or full software raid, and opensource as that. I want no fakes. I hate fake modems, fake wifi cards, fake tv cards, fake printers, fakes etcetera. I want real things.
Non portable means that if your mobo dies, you can not put your raid into a mobo of a different make. You need one with the same type of bios raid.
By definition, we are only talking simple RAID mirroring here. I don't see how anyone wouldn't be able to put a pair of disks in another machine, and use the built in setup program to choose re-make mirror set from the disks provided.
Oh, yes, because I have seen fake raid disks, in perfect good condition, fail because the mobo failed, and the data be irretrievable because no other mobo was able to use them. They had to be reformatted in full, all data lost. I have been bitten. I don not want any fake raid near me or anybody I might support. There are no advantages in fake raid that I can see. They are good for windows, I suppose. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjWYHwACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VPhQCcDBwWAM4AJIy2N0r/za70WmOb PeIAn2bgQJyve1YZ1Yu0ctdXhG0e+aSA =hNkf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org