Jesse Keating wrote: > Sure it's more expensive. It does true hardware raid. True hardware 'more' is not the word ;-), it's _much more_ > 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. Yes, they aren't RAID boards. But Linux_soft_raid is cheaper, more secure and flexible and not slower. I don't see any case where is the best a low end RAID board than Linux_soft_raid.