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Subject: Re: 3ware discontinuing the Escalade Series
To: rugolsky@ead.dsa.com
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 18:05:49 +0100 (BST)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> I really like my 7800.  At this point I guess I'm going to convert from
> hard to soft RAID, on the theory that (unfixed) bugs in the firmware are less
> likely to botch JBOD. 

Except for RAID5 the softraid is also likely to outperform a hardware raid
controller. With RAID5 its a CPU usage tradeoff
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