On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 17:09 -0800, Ubence Quevedo wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I am redoing my system and have three 250GB hard drives that I was > going to try and setup a raid 5 configuration with. My motherboard > is a ASUS K8N4E-Deluxe with both nforce raid and silicon image raid. > My question is, would it be best to go with either of the "hardware" > raid solutions [I know it isn't truly hardware raid], or should I use > Fedora's built in software raid for what I want to accomplish. I > can't afford an LSI or 3Ware raid card, or else I wouldn't be posting > this question. > > Has anyone had any problems/horror stories with these particular > hardware raid solutions I have mentioned? On the other hand, has > anyone had any particularly bad experience with the Fedora software > raid? > > I haven't had a chance to look through the mailing list to see if > anyone has asked a similar question, so please don't flame me! > > Thanx, and I look forward to your responses! > > -Ubence > A. your build in RAID is software assisted which means, software RAID that uses some hardware assistance. B. Linux' software RAID is much more flexible (you can mix IDE/SATA/SCSI drives in one set), better tester (both hardware and software wise) and can be transported from one machine to another. Oh, and it can actually out-perform hardware RAID controllers, simply because the performance scales as the host CPU speed improves. In short, use the Linux software RAID. - Gilboa
