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Re: Recomendation HW RAID controller
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Marlowe)
Mon Feb 14 14:13:54 2000
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 10:24:02 -0700 (MST)
From: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@ihs.com>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Cc: linux-raid@vger.rutgers.edu
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On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Chris Mauritz wrote:
> I've also read in several places that the strongarm processor used in the
> ExtremeRaid controllers tends to be a bit faster for Raid 5 applications
> than the other i960-based cards. I haven't tried the ExtremeRaid myself,
> but I am planning to deploy a few on dual PIII-750 mhz departmental
> servers (running Linux, of course). They are a bit expensive, but it's
> getting hard to keep track of all the software RAID patches. 8-)
Has anyone done any benchmarks that compare Linux software RAID to hardware
RAID? The parity generation numbers that go by in my software RAID boxes
are quite impressive, so I'd guess that software RAID would hold its own,
but don't have any real world data to confirm or deny my beliefs.
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