Re: raid controller recommendation

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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.

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