simple RAID setup

Paul Gear paul at libertysys.com.au
Sat Dec 29 05:58:28 UTC 2012


On 12/29/2012 03:45 PM, Jackson Doak wrote:
> for simplicity, try to use hardware raid, e.g. created in bios. use 
> either RAID 0 (striping, more speed but lose on drive, loose them all) 
> or RAID 1 (mirroring, gives redundancy)

Most hardware RAID created in BIOS is actually software RAID (sometimes 
called "fake RAID") implemented in a driver.  I've never had anything 
but bad experiences with it, and plenty of good experiences with Linux 
software RAID.  More here: http://linuxman.wikispaces.com/RAID

Paul

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