>> 1) Bite the bullet and get the hardware RAID controller. Will this give >> me the performance I want? > > That depends on the rest of the system - you get to play "move the bottleneck". It will then depend on your PCI-X controller, your memory bandwidth and if you have the CPU 8). The 3ware is at least a real hardware driven RAID, most ATA 'RAID' is BIOS/driver RAID so just software RAID with a disguise kit. I should have given a little more information about my system: Motherboard: M2N-SLI DELUXE Memory: 800Mhz cat /proc/cpuinfo model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ cpu MHz : 3013.840 cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 4060920 kB MemFree: 2154220 kB I only have 1 PCI-E 16x and 1 PCI-E 4x free. Everything else is just plain old PCI... --- Will Y. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines