[Gllug] Computer shopping

[Peter Childs]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Jason Clifford wrote:

> 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.
> 
	Sounds like a WinModem to me. How do we tell one from other? 

Peter Childs


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