On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:08:13 +0000 Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt> dijo:
> *) either i buy an AMD Phenom X4 (9650, no TLB issue; socket AM2+ is > compatible with AM2) to replace my Athlon64; or > *) i buy one 500+ GB SATA-2 drive; or two with RAID. I'm considering > Western Digital, two of them with 32Mb cache are roughtly the same > price as an X4. > > The questions being: has anyone had experience with the X4 and > Debian(64); and how well is RAID(1?) supported? I believe the > motherboard has hw raid. I have one of those motherboards and it is running Ubuntu Intrepid. It has two 320 GB Western Digital SATA II drives in Linux software RAID that I set up with mdadm. I knew the motherboard had hardware RAID on it, but after discussing with Linux friends and googling on the subject I came to the conclusion that software RAID was more reliable than any kind of hardware RAID. It has been running beautifully for some time now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
