raid controller recommendation

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

Jesse Keating wrote:

> Sure it's more expensive.  It does true hardware raid.  True hardware 

'more' is not the word ;-), it's _much more_

> 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.

Yes, they aren't RAID boards. But Linux_soft_raid is cheaper, more secure
and flexible and not slower.
I don't see any case where is the best a low end RAID board than
Linux_soft_raid.