Re: tyan's raid1
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:30:10AM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: What about efficiency (speed and subtraction of cpu) and reliability (of booting from the intact disk should the other one fail) of raid1 provided by the mainboard Tyan K8WE S2895? It could be simply set from bios and thus ease life. Any comparison with raid1 from amd64 debian in case of application that access often the disks? I have such a mainboard by i did not try as it seems the aladino's lamp. that question should also be addressed to tyan but i do not know where. Using fakeraids (which most onboard raids are) isn't worth it. You can't easily move the disks to another system and continue reading the raid if the board dies. This is also true of hardware raids, but at least those you can move the controller over too, and usually you can get replacement raidcards (they change a lot less often than mainboards). Linux software raid generally is also better performance than the fakeraids, and easier to manage, and it is supported by the debian installer, which fakeraid isn't. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tyan's raid1
Francesco Pietra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What about efficiency (speed and subtraction of cpu) and reliability (of booting from the intact disk should the other one fail) of raid1 provided by the mainboard Tyan K8WE S2895? It could be simply set from bios and thus ease life. Any comparison with raid1 from amd64 debian in case of application that access often the disks? I have such a mainboard by i did not try as it seems the aladino's lamp. that question should also be addressed to tyan but i do not know where. thank you francesco pietra All those onboard raids on cheap mainboards are software raid and there is no advantage of it over Linux Software raid. Only the big drawback of being stuck with that chip and bios. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tyan's raid1
What about efficiency (speed and subtraction of cpu) and reliability (of booting from the intact disk should the other one fail) of raid1 provided by the mainboard Tyan K8WE S2895? It could be simply set from bios and thus ease life. Any comparison with raid1 from amd64 debian in case of application that access often the disks? I have such a mainboard by i did not try as it seems the aladino's lamp. that question should also be addressed to tyan but i do not know where. thank you francesco pietra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tyan's raid1
Francesco Pietra wrote: What about efficiency (speed and subtraction of cpu) and reliability (of booting from the intact disk should the other one fail) of raid1 provided by the mainboard Tyan K8WE S2895? It could be simply set from bios and thus ease life. Any comparison with raid1 from amd64 debian in case of application that access often the disks? I wouldn't bother with onboard RAID. Unless it is a very expensive card (e.g., US$1000+), it is probably not worth it since if the board fails, you may have difficulty accessing your data later. For example, with the RAID in the kernel, you can always just pop the disk into another machine and access it there. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
