Re: Best Low-cost IDE RAID Solution For 2.6.x? (OT?)

[Johannes Ruscheinski]

Also sprach Arjan van de Ven:
> 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

Binary-only drivers are quite unacceptable to me!

> of these is quite unfortionate resulting in slower access than linux
> software raid can do...

Thanks for the advice!

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