| Rich Freeman on 23 Oct 2014 04:05:57 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Real (driverless) hardware RAID controller for PC? |
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 7:08 PM, James Barrett <jadoba@jadoba.net> wrote: > +1 for software raid's stability and lack of catastrophic "gotcha"s, but > features are lacking. Some motherboards might not cooperate with hotplugging > drives, and performance will lag since the CPU will be taxed doing RAID > stuff. I've never noticed Linux software RAID using any significant amount of CPU back when I was using it. Maybe if it was busy it would use a few percent of one core. Maybe if you have 50 drives or something it adds up, but if you're scaling that large you should be using something like ZFS anyway. I agree that the hardware side can be more of an issue, but I think that even most consumer motherboards today support hotplug as long as they are in AHCI mode. -- Rich ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug