[K12OSN] Woe is me: Onboard SCSI/RAID Controller

[Burke Almquist]

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On Oct 12, 2004, at 5:20 PM, Jeff Kinz wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 04:15:37PM -0600, Mario Guerra wrote:
>> I understand why software modems exist. But software RAID?. It's 
>> exceedingly
>> ridiculous. If you need RAID you need speed and reliability.
>
> No.  The desire for RAID can come strictly for reliability. Speed
> is not always an issue. (Although I certainly want it ! :) )
>
> It could also be desired strictly for the speed increase.
>

If you were doing it for the speed increase, then why would you be 
using IDE drives and software RAID? SCSI drives and Hardware 
controllers are going to provide much better performance.

If you are doing it for reliability only, then why bother with 
pseudo-hardware RAID controllers, just use linux's built-in software 
RAID. It's probably more reliable than the pseudo-hardware stuff.
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