[Gllug] A SATA Raid card worth having?

[John Hearns]

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 15:23 +0000, Ben Fitzgerald wrote:

> on attending a redhat course not long ago an instructor stated that in
> his opinion s/w raid was now as good as h/w raid as:
> 
> a) most cards use crappy processors to perform the parity calculation
> b) modern cpus are very powerful and can easily cope with parity calculation

Ooohh! Get your asbestos underwear on folks.

Given the choice, hardware RAID any time for me.
And I'll back up the recommendations for 3Ware. Their tw_cli command
line interface works in 64 bit distros, as I found recently when having
to rebuild a mirror set.

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