On 05/15/2015 06:58 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 05:50:25PM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote:
On 05/15/2015 05:26 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 05:59:21PM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote:
Intel's C224 chipset supports Intel's Rapid Storage
Technology Enterprise (RSTe). He "e" is for "Enterprise".
It can be used for RAID 0, 1, 10.
Snake oil.
Supermicro sent me this from Intel's RSTe documentation:
...
What am I missing?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_medicine
the main thing is that the supposed benefits cannot be reliably quantified.
in your case, the vendor says "enterprise" and "trim" and "rapid",
but is it any better than plain mdadm software raid, better by what criteria?
I was under the impression under RAID 1 that RSTe allowed you to
boot off of either drive if one of the pair failed. Does mdadm
allow for the same thing?
Does mdadm do TRIM on RAID 1?
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