[Gllug] Computer shopping

[Jason Clifford]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, David Damerell wrote:

> >I sorry to continue this discussion but I have plenty of experience to
> >support my views. Your setup only considers disk performance but my
> >experience tell me that the more IDE disks you put in a computer (esp.
> >RAID)  the slower your CPU gets.
> 
> Surely this is not the case with a hardware RAID controller, where it
> does the work of talking to the discs?

Not all hardware RAID controllers are equal.

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.

Jason Clifford
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