Thread: Software versus hardware RAID 0
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Old 18-01-2006, 23:29   #3
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Re: Software versus hardware RAID 0
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Originally Posted by lsainsbury
Software RAID has higher rescource overheads than a hardware based RAID

Yes you could, but you'd lose all your data...so not so much of a convert but a re-build!

For more info - see this linky!
Bear in mind that many "hardware" Raid chips, particularly the cheap ones that tend to be built into motherboards (nVidia, I'm looking at you), are actually "fake RAID" modules. With these, all the work is done by the drivers rather than the actual hardware. Sort of the Raid equivalent of a winmodem.

In this case, there is approximately zero difference in performance between a "hardware" Raid array and a software one.
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