Hardware RAID 1 - which card ?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 06.07.2004 schrieb Thoralf Polet um 0:34:

> This applies only to SATA:
> 
> An Adaptec drove me nuts not working a bit - later I
> was told a BIOS update made it running. Anyway a
> Dawicontrol DC-150 gives you great value for your money.

That is no real RAID controller, just like the cheap Promise
controllers. Real hardware RAID controllers have a logic chip which does
the work. The Dawicontrol only has a SATA chipset (Silicon Image
SATALink SiL3112ACT144) and BIOS support, but all the RAID logic work is
done by the CPU.

Alexander


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