Topic: Tough Raid Question (Read 70 times)

pug_ster · « **on:** November 16, 2006, 10:14:00 AM »

Hardware raid is transparent to the operating system. In your set hardware raid 0 in your computer, Windows' disk manager will only see one 500gb hard drive. Whereas in software raid, you will see 2 250gb drives.

Definately go with hardware raid because the CPU gets bogged down with software raid. Besides the performance issues, linux won't recognize your 2 software raid 0 partition. After you purchase the raid controller, you will probably have to reinstall the OS.

pug_ster · « **Reply #1 on:** November 16, 2006, 11:45:00 AM »

I guess nvraid is software raid thus not supported by linux. You can go to Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System tools -> files and settings transfer wizard to backup all your settings in windows.

--DANNY-- · « **Reply #2 on:** November 17, 2006, 04:52:00 PM »

Danny

--DANNY-- · « **Reply #3 on:** November 17, 2006, 10:51:00 PM »

QUOTE(epsilon72 @ Nov 17 2006, 09:54 PM)

It seems anything as cheap as that card that I listed will only be a software raid solution, and thus will not work with linux. The "real" raid cards are always more than $100

Well that really sucks...
So much for Linux on my computer... I could put it on another drive, but that would be pretty lame if I couldn't access most of my data...

I wonder if those cheap software RAID cards would outperform the nForce4 NVRaid setups...
So even if it won't provide as a solution to running linux on a raid setup, but it would increase performance in Windows...

-Danny

pug_ster · « **Reply #4 on:** November 20, 2006, 10:21:00 AM »

If your setup was raid 0/1, the difference between sub $100 and over $100 cards wouldn't make alot of difference. Many of the costlier raid controllers have faster processors, memory and battery backup cache, thus optimized for raid 5/10 setups. The sub $100 raid controllers are hardware raid 1/0 and should be good enough for you.

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