[Pc_Support] Re: Intel ICH7R and nVidia MCP-04 at RAID-5 = 15MBps (yes, it's FRAID)

[Jason Boxman]

On Monday 05 September 2005 14:00, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
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> **NOTE:  I have seen plenty of people buy 3Ware cards and then use
> software RAID, only to complain about 3Ware.  They buy the 3Ware cards
> for hot-swap support, which doesn't always work correctly with software
> RAID.  I find it incomprehensible to buy a 3Ware card and not use its
> hardware RAID functions.  9 times out of 10, these people have not even
> attempted it, but believed the over-marketing non-sense of software RAID
> bigots who say hardware RAID is slower -- typically based on their prior
> use of i960 hardware RAID solutions that were not viable 10 years ago,
> much less 5 years ago when StrongARM and ASICs started showing up.

Well, if you buy a used 6xxx series card for ATA disks, you'd probably be 
better off with software RAID 5 if you can't afford enough disks to run RAID 
1+0 in hardware.  Certainly for any modern 3Ware card it's insanity not to 
use hardware RAID, though.

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Jason Boxman
Perl Programmer / *NIX Systems Administrator
Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing | University of Florida
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