On Thursday 11 December 2003 16:41, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > 3w RAID 'SATA' boards are _very expensive_. > And _any_ SATA board gets same performance than 3ware. Promise and > BCM are ready and supported by LiNUX [1]. And RAIDCore is much > faster/cheaper than 3w, but I don't know if it runs with LiNUX. Sure it's more expensive. It does true hardware raid. True hardware raid isn't cheap. Promise and BCM aren't true hardware raid last time I checked, you're still using your own CPU to calculate raid operations. Especially harmfull when doing raid 5. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraLegacy) Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
