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Subject: Re: HPT370 RAID-1 or Software RAID-1, what's "best"?
To: thunder@ngforever.de (Thunder from the hill)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:29:59 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nitrax@giron.wox.org (Martin Eriksson)
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> > 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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