Hardware RAID Level & Performance

[Norman Zhang]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> From the top of my head, about 4MB/s write and 10-30MB/s reading on a 5-disc
> RAID5 array.  If that's enough for your needs, go for it.  Linux software
> RAID can do better than that (but it eats some CPU *and* it doesn't drive
> the SAFTE enclosure, nor can it do global hot-spares...)

Thanks.

> *All* Intel hardware RAID adapters look the same to the OS, AFAIK. So yes,
> it is supported by Linux 2.4 and 2.6, and very well supported at that.

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