[Gllug] A SATA Raid card worth having?

[Ben Fitzgerald]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 02:06:37PM +0000, Russell Howe wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 01:12:49PM +0000, M.Blackmore wrote:
> > Is there a SATA card that does hardware raid that is worth having?
> 
> I don't know, but there are lots which aren't:
> 
> http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html

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

Others may disagree, I am just the messenger (tm). Don't flame me but I
would be interested to read comments.

Ben.

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