RAID Controller for SATA drives

[Les Mikesell]

On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 16:33, Saqib Ali wrote:
> > Why don't you want SW raid? I find it more reliable than using a 7006-2,
> > which I bought btw..
> 
> I come from a SCSI background, and have a perception that software
> RAIDS are slow....

RAID5 has some CPU overhead.  RAID1 has next to none with
reasonable hardware where you just issue the write twice and
the controller and DMA does the work in parallel - and reads
are only done once anyway.

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  Les Mikesell
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