Re: [PLUG] Raid Basics (was: Linux Raid)

["Forge XP" <forge@dca.net>]

> > To loosely quote: 'why even bother with the special controller?  (That's
> > what I need to know before bothering with a RAID'ed mo'bo'.)' - Don't
> > bother, unless you are using Windows and a Linux. I believe FreeBSD also
> > supports the Fasttrak. If I were only running Windows *or* Linux, I
would
> > never have bought this TX4, I would have just bought the (slightly
better
> > supported) Ultra100 plain IDE controller, and done OS-based software
RAID.
> > In either OS (2K logical volumes or Linux MD) it would have been
*FASTER*.
>
> Faster to implement or faster performance?

Performance. Linux MD RAID is consistently outperforming ataraid. Dunno
about implementation, I'm a lazy mofo at heart. I hear MD is pretty easy to
set up, and I know Win2k RAID is very easy to set up, as long as you don't
mind not being able to run any other OS on that machine, ever.

> For some reason the concept of OS-based RAID is not appealing to me.

Me either.

> Since I'm building a new PC for the wife and everyone else who tries
> to take over her PC (as I am doing now because my other monitor is in
> use) it will be running Win98SE.  I was thinking that RAID0 would be
> nice for the added speed and drive space (20G x 2).

Promise's binary-only drivers are a bit faster, though you can forget about
kernel upgrades. I hear they're pretty easy to use on most distros, as well.

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