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.
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/filter_results.asp?strOSs=39&strTypes=MOD%2CSPH%2CSCD&ProductID=974&OSFullName=Linux*&submit=Go%21
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