Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Best Low-cost IDE RAID Solution For 2.6.x? (OT?) | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Sun, 28 Dec 2003 22:45:39 +0100 |
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On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 22:35, Johannes Ruscheinski wrote:
> Fisrt of all: thanks for the advice Joel! Two questions: why not use the > hardware raid capability of the Promise tx4000 and if we'd use software > raid instead, what would be the CPU overhead?
be careful, almost all ata raid controllers out there are *software raid* hidden in a binary only driver. Also generally the on-disk format of these is quite unfortionate resulting in slower access than linux software raid can do... [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |