On Wednesday 15 October 2008 15:13:45 Pintér Tibor wrote: > > I'm in the process of setting up a new private computer. I've bought one > > with two drives b/c I wanted to setup a RAID system - RAID1 for > > important partitions, RAID0 for scratch files maybe. > > Additionally I would like to use LVM2 --- on my work PC I've grown to > > like the flexibility of that. > > The Intel DQ35JO motherboard now supports some kind of mobo based RAID. > > Is it better to use this HW raid, or to ignore that and use only the > > linux kernel's software RAID. > > thats not hardware raid, it never was, it never will be.
Rule of thumb: For any machine you buy to use at home, dump the on-board RAID and use Linux software raid instead. Reason: kernel raid works, that on-board crap doesn't Other reason: real hardware raid costs many times more than that entire computer you bought for home use -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
