Re: HPT370 RAID-1 or Software RAID-1, what's "best"?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Mar 15 2002 - 10:29:59 EST


> > that comes with the BIOS, but it uses softwareraid.
> That doesn't prevent me from saying that real hardware raid might be
> better. But is the thing you wish to say that there's no difference, or
> what?

The CPU can saturate the I/O bandwidth (if not then go upgrade to a pentium)
At that point its totally disk I/O bound so there will be no difference

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