raid controller recommendation

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

Steve Wechsler wrote:

> Also, someone commented on the negligible performance difference between SW
> & HW raid. While this may be the case for RAID 1, 0, or 10, with any RAID
> solution that requires parity computation (3, 5, 30 or 50), you had better
> go the hardware route.

I would like to stress with "a high performance board", like one Xcale >600Mhz
chip. Otherwise, with a low end RAID board, you will go slower than with the
server power.