On 05/15/2015 06:58 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 05:50:25PM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>> On 05/15/2015 05:26 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 05:59:21PM -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Intel's C224 chipset supports Intel's Rapid Storage
>>>> Technology Enterprise (RSTe).  He "e" is for "Enterprise".
>>>> It can be used for RAID 0, 1, 10.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Snake oil.
>>>
>>
>> Supermicro sent me this from Intel's RSTe documentation:
>> ...
>> What am I missing?
>>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_medicine
>
> the main thing is that the supposed benefits cannot be reliably quantified.
>
> in your case, the vendor says "enterprise" and "trim" and "rapid",
> but is it any better than plain mdadm software raid, better by what criteria?
>


I was under the impression under RAID 1 that RSTe allowed you to
boot off of either drive if one of the pair failed.  Does mdadm
allow for the same thing?

Does mdadm do TRIM on RAID 1?


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