[mythtv-users] Linux software raid question

Dan Ritter dsr-myth at tao.merseine.nu
Fri Jun 13 16:48:35 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:11:46AM -0400, John Drescher wrote:
> With all this discussion of hardware vs software raid and my position
> of using software raid under linux I would like to make a distinction.
> My positive view of software raid does not carry over to windows and
> specifically nvidia nvraid. I have found far too many performance and
> reliability problems with nvraid to make it comparable to hardware
> raid. In this case I would recommend 3ware or other similar hardware
> raid solutions.

nvraid isn't software RAID; it's 'fakeraid'. The software RAID
under discussion is the sort managed by mdadm.

-dsr-

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