[clug] Hardware Assisted RAID (RAID through BIOS/Chipset RAID)

Edward C. Lang edlang at edlang.org
Thu Oct 25 17:46:35 MDT 2012


Hi,

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 09:04:40PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> But if, as you say, you only have 2 disks, chances are you don't need
> to spend the money on a good RAID controller, just go for Linux
> software RAID.  It's reliable and definitly faster that any random BIOS
> controller you're likely to have.

Does anyone on the list have recent comparisons of the performance of
software RAID devices and LVM RAID volumes? I'm becoming a little
frustrated with the relative lack of flexibility of the former.

Regards,

Edward.

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