Mark Hahn wrote:
If would not use the "raid" feature of the Highpoint cards, because it is only software raid and not so performant as a hardware raid. If you don't need a
please don't say things like this. HW raid is *NOT* generally
faster or better than software raid. yes, if you're building a quad-gigabit fileserver out of an old P5/100 you had sitting around,
you're not even going to start looking at sw raid.
One point. Hardware raid (and faux hardware raid) provides real hot swap with on-the-fly rebuilds.
Linux software raid can't (yet).
Both promise and highpoint proprietary ide raid drivers can, but no raw kernel or libata drivers can as yet, and the interface between the hotswap driver and md driver is no where near there.
No real need to have much interfacing. As long as the low level hardware and driver support hotswap, md will notice when the drive stops responding, or starts spitting out nothing but errors. Of course, it is the nice thing to do, to use mdadm to hot-remove the drive first :)
With the Highpoint driver I get a drive failure and the card starts beeping. I fire up the management util, remove the faulty drive, swap it out and insert the new drive in the array. The array starts rebuilding - no effect on the uptime and only a slight loss in throughput. Plus it's seamless.
Yeah, md+mdadm can do all this right now, provided the hardware and driver support is there...
Jeff
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