[Gllug] A SATA Raid card worth having?

[Martin A. Brooks]

Nix wrote:

>raid5: using function: pIII_sse (1208.800 MB/sec)
>
>and, well, no disk I've ever heard of has that sort of bandwidth, and no
>collection of disks you could reasonably hang off a PC does either
>(what, that's 30 disks at 40Mb/s, and that's also way above PCI bus
>bandwidth...)
>  
>

You're confused.  This means that, if your processor is doing _nothing 
else whatsoever_, there's a  slight chance it can compute raid5 
checksums at this speed.


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