[Gllug] Hardware comparisons

[Martin A. Brooks]

Christian Smith wrote:
> I'd guess software RAID should be faster. Modern CPUs can blaze 
> through bulk memory to memory operations, such as the XOR needed for 
> RAID.

The entire point of hardware RAID is that you hand off this processing 
to a dedicated card. _Of course_ a couple of Ghz processor will be 
quicker on paper than an on-card controller but the idea is that you're 
processor should be doing other stuff and non calculating RAID checksums.
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