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Re: Install SL6 on RAID 0 on GA-890GPA-UD3H (chipset: AMD SB850 )
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Zack Yovel <[log in to unmask]>
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Zack Yovel <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 25 May 2011 17:54:14 +0300
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2011/5/25 Phong Nguyen <[log in to unmask]>

>
> On 25 May 2011, at 0029, Zack Yovel wrote:
>
> > Install SL6 on RAID 0 on GA-890GPA-UD3H (chipset: AMD SB850 )
> >
> > Does anyone know of a raid driver for this motherboard or chipset?
>
> Please do not use RAID-0 unless you have *very* specific requirements
> (which you have not yet stated) . You are highly unlikely to perceive any
> speed increases outside of synthetic benchmarks and you risk losing
> everything should one drive fail or corrupt itself. You might even have
> slightly reduced performance due to the overhead needed to handle it.
>
> At this time it does not appear that there is SB850 RAID support in Linux.


Don't worry, I intend to backup anything important on an external HD. I'm
aware of the risk.

"At this time it does not appear that there is SB850 RAID support in Linux"
- as I thought.
Thanks.

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