On 18/07/07, Tony Mountifield <tony at softins.clara.co.uk> wrote: > In article <f7iufv$1cc$1 at softins.clara.co.uk>, > Tony Mountifield <tony at softins.clara.co.uk> wrote: > > > > My question is: which kind of configuration will generally give me better > > performance? To use the IHC7 RAID-1 as currently set up, or to use Linux > > software RAID-1 as I am used to doing? Any other reasons to choose one > > over the other? > > Thanks for the responses, confirming what I thought: disable SATA RAID and > use Linux software RAID for mirroring. So that's what I've done. > > It appears that my Centos 4.4 install didn't know about dmraid devices anyway. I personally would give fakeraid a because the hardware chipset wouldn't take as much CPU time as soft-raid. Why are you using 4.4 instead of 4.5 as you mentioned in your previous post? -- Alvin Chang Yu-Ming