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29 Aug
2005
29 Aug
'05
17:17
Sandy Drobic wrote:
I'm beginning to wonder if it would be better just to use the raid controller as normal SATA controller (the card uses three Silicon Image 3112a controllers, which I know to work a lot faster), and create a software raid?
I suspect the cpu of the raid controller is a bit weak. Software raid would probably be a lot faster, but then you would lose the comfort of hardware raid.
That's alright, the server is not mission critical - it is merely for storage of backups.
Provided your server has the cpu power to spare.
That's the part I'm worried about. If the hardware choices were mine, it would have been an Athlon with a 3ware card... Thanks Hans