Best choice -> md vs iswraid vs promise

Samuel Flory sflory at rackable.com
Tue Mar 9 20:27:54 UTC 2004


Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:06:57PM +0100, Optimized wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>If considering the fact that I have a linux only system, what do you
>>think is the best option for me in order to obtain the best system
>>performances?
>>
>>Linux raid, Promise FastTrak raid or Intel's ICH5-R raid ?
> 
> 
> linux raid. It has a better on-disk layout which leads to higher
> performance.

   Plus linux raid works out of the box on most distro's installers, and 
the 2.6 kernel.

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