RAID Cards
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
chad at shire.net
Fri Jul 1 17:07:51 GMT 2005
On Jul 1, 2005, at 3:19 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-Jun-30 17:18:15 -0400, Simon wrote:
>
>> It's not only CPU factor, I don't trust software RAID.
>>
>
> I suspect you don't have a choice. Either the RAID is done in the
> kernel
> on your host system or the RAID is done in the the firmware on your
> RAID
> card. In either case, it's software.
Sure, everything in the end is SW anymore, at least at a controlling
level. But it does not involve the OS and can have special HW
circuits used to perform certain functions much faster. It reduces
the strain on the OS.
Chad
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