John Szakmeister wrote:
I don't know much about the operation of the software RAID driver, but I've read time and time again when researching solutions the Linux's software RAID driver beat the pants off of most manufacturer's software RAID drivers.
It depends on your needs. If you have a system with lots of concurrent activity, software RAID on IDE *will* be a bottleneck. There *are* good reasons Adaptec why can sell their very pricey SCSI RAID controllers, and those are all about performance. If you're talking SCSI, I'm not sure how poor/well software RAID will perform in comparison to hardware RAID, but I suspect a hardware controller will still win if you're talking lots of concurrent activity. In Pieters case it's a home multi-media system - one user presumably, mostly single-threaded access. I think software RAID on IDE will probably do very well. /Per Jessen, Zurich