raid controller recommendation
Jesse Keating
jkeating at j2solutions.net
Fri Dec 12 01:20:40 UTC 2003
On Thursday 11 December 2003 16:41, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> 3w RAID 'SATA' boards are _very expensive_.
> And _any_ SATA board gets same performance than 3ware. Promise and
> BCM are ready and supported by LiNUX [1]. And RAIDCore is much
> faster/cheaper than 3w, but I don't know if it runs with LiNUX.
Sure it's more expensive. It does true hardware raid. True hardware
raid isn't cheap. Promise and BCM aren't true hardware raid last time
I checked, you're still using your own CPU to calculate raid
operations. Especially harmfull when doing raid 5.
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