[Discuss] nforce4 linux support

[Denis Tonn]

  No experience with that chipset per se. But I have built a dozen or so raid5 servers 
using IDE/ATA and SATA drives, and  combinations of both, and software raid. Works great 
for me. I find it a lot more flexible than hardware raid.

  From a performance perspective, it's a wash with today's CPU's (especially dual core). 
It becomes a question of where the raid processing occurs, in the mainline CPU(s) or the 
hardware raid card. Either way there is a processor (and code), it's just a question of 
where it resides.



Chris Mueller wrote:
> Does anybody have any experience with the nforce4 chipset? I'd like to 
> expand my home server to a raid5 setup, but for the price of quality 
> 4port hardware raid card, I can buy an ASUS P5ND2-SLI 
> motherboard+celeron 805+512 ram. Seems like a better idea than dealing 
> with my aging duron 1ghz. I realize that the quoted raid5 support on 
> these motherboards are more than likely windows only, but does anybody 
> have any experience with the chipset under linux (known issues, 
> performance etc.) I will most likely use software raid 5.
> 
> -Chris
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