[Gllug] Computer shopping

[Andy Farnsworth]

> > Some are little more than a couple of ports relying upon a
> software driver
> > (ie CPU) to do most of the real work. Adaptec put out quit a
> few of those.
> >
> > Many IDE "RAID Controllers" are like this.
> >
> 	Sounds like a WinModem to me. How do we tell one from other?

Price!  Seriously though, look at the review sites and pay attention to the
benchmarks that show CPU usage during testing.  This will usually point out
the "softRAID" versions as apposed to the Hardware RAID.  Be careful though
because I think there is at least one out there that does both, depending on
which RAID level you are doing.

Andy Farnsworth


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