> 1) Bite the bullet and get the hardware RAID controller. Will this give > me the performance I want? That depends on the rest of the system - you get to play "move the bottleneck". It will then depend on your PCI-X controller, your memory bandwidth and if you have the CPU 8). The 3ware is at least a real hardware driven RAID, most ATA 'RAID' is BIOS/driver RAID so just software RAID with a disguise kit. > 2) Go with a software RAID 5. Will I lose performance with this > configuration? If I use this but only get modest performance gains, that > would be acceptable. RAID 5 in software means XOR in software so has a cost, RAID 1 is much cheaper in software if you can take the capacity hit. RAID5 also works best with a battery backed cache which you don't get in software. You may also find that multiple cheap PCI-X AHCI cards outperform several drives on one card. Alan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
