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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
