ral Posted February 13, 2003 Report Share Posted February 13, 2003 How does the perforamnce of software RAID compare to hardware RAID? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted February 13, 2003 Report Share Posted February 13, 2003 It has a lot to do with how well suported your hardware is under Linux. But generally a dedicated hardware soltuion will give you better overall performance whether it be RAID, sound cards, modems, etc.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counterspy Posted February 13, 2003 Report Share Posted February 13, 2003 It strikes me that you should do some more research on raid before you commit to a particular method. IIRC, that hardware raid has a greater range of methods of implementation than software raid, but since I have never had a use for it, I have not researched the subject myself. Counterspy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted February 14, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2003 Actually, I have done a lot of reading on the matter (and got myself terribly confused) :) Seriously. It seems like a few years back when we were running 64-126MB and 200-500MHz, hardware RAID was the best way to go. But several articles seem to indicate that with todays CPU's and memory, software RAID might be almost equivalent to hardware RAID... but I have not read seen any comparison tests with new equipment. Planning to use it on a Celeron 1.7 and a Pentium 4 2.4 with 512 and 1GB of RAM respectively. One advantage of software RAID with Linux is you don't run into driver problems. I plan to run on RAID1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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