On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Jeff Kalchik wrote: > *NEVER* use software RAID if you can avoid it. Software RAID puts a > pretty good hit right on your CPU.
That hasn't been true in Linux for a number of years. Given a "modern" machine (less than 2-5 years old) _and sufficient ram_, Linux software raid is a great deal faster than most cheap dedicated hardware controllers without having any noticable CPU load. HOWEVER: as noted by others, Windows software raid performance is very poor.... AB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
