> I have a box with DPT PM2044 SmartCacheIV UW-SCSI PCI cards which can do > RAID-5 in hardware, but I'd have to use the DOS volume manager to set up > the array. I have heard reports that vinum woudl be faster than using the > native card. Is this true?
Doubtful, though I have heard that there are some rare special circumstances where software raid can be faster. Given your hardware, you will probably not experience those conditions. > Should I not bother with doing the hardware > raid > and just go with vinum? Use the hardware RAID, especially if you are going to use a simple RAID configuration (like one big RAID-5 virtual disk). Just make sure you have some way of figuring out if one of the disks goes bad. Worst case you could boot off a DOS floppy once in a while to make sure all the disks are still good. > The rest of the system is a k6-2 400mhz with 256mb ram (amount might > change). > I will also have moderate network i/o on the pci bus (obviously). -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"