suggestions for SATA RAID cards

[Jo Rhett]

> Jo Rhett wrote:
> >FYI, several people have claimed that the 1820a is "hardware" -- this
> >is untrue.  It's hardware accelerated, but all of the raid logic is
> >in the driver.  It's sludgeware", not hardware raid.  Performance
> >tests against a real hardware raid adapter will demonstrate what I
> >mean. 
 
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 06:16:09AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
> I believe you are wrong here and my own performance tests here
> backs this up, showing it keeps up with the more expensive areca
> in a number of areas notably, providing 180MB/s in sequential
> read tests from a 5 disk array.
 
It seems clear you don't understand the difference between driver-based raid
support and hardware-based raid.  Unless you just forgot to mention the CPU
load level you had artificially added prior to starting this test...

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Jo Rhett
senior geek
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