Software RAID

[Mogens Kjaer]

Tom Spec wrote:
...
> Clearly it's not as good as hardware RAID, but still I think
> it is MUCH  better than nothing.

The SCSI hardware RAID controllers I've seen in the past
(HP/Compaq SmartArray and an IBM serveraid) have all
had worse performance than using Linux software RAID.

Software RAID (RAID 5 in my case) was 2x faster writing and
3x faster reading than hardware RAID.

Mogens

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