[Gllug] A SATA Raid card worth having?

[Nix]

On Wed, 01 Feb 2006, Martin A. Brooks mused:
> Nix wrote:
> 
>>Yes, context switches and cache and TLB pollution will slow it down, of
>>course. But by multiple orders of magnitude?
> 
> Depends on what your server is doing, really. -- 

Of course if you're doing small piecemeal writes then there'll be a lot
of extra reads to compute parity across all stripes... but small
piecemeal writes are a fairly uncommon thing.

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