[Gllug] re: software vs hardware RAID

[Russell Howe]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 11:54:57PM +0100, Chris Bell wrote:
>    According to a previous thread, you need to select your hardware raid
> card carefully as some only supply a hardware connection facility, handing
> the real work back to the main processor via the M$ Windows set-up CD.

This URL is probably pertinent.

http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html

Some might say "But if the BIOS on the card is doing the RAID, then it's
hardware, right?", but would miss the fact that the BIOS is code run by
the PC's CPU. It isn't the same as the card containing a processor which
handles the RAID function independantly of the host system's
processor/RAM/etc

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