[BlueOnyx:04580] Re: Hardware Raid Question

[Gerald Waugh]

On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 15:35 +0200, Steffan wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have a question
> Im thinking of buying a Intel Server
> No i have two options
> 1 supplyer says i can better take a Areca raid controller because the Intel
> Raid controllers (Intel SR2600URLXR server) somethimes has problems with
> linux software and Areca is faster then Intel
> 
> The other supplyer says that he never heard abouth that
> Any experiance in this ?
most onboard raid controllers are really FRAID,
Fake RAID, software RAID is better, less overhead.

A good hardware RAID controller is OK, but be careful about the FRAID
controllers

Gerald