On Sat, 29 May 1999, Dave Wreski wrote:
> I thought somoene might know how the performance of the software raid
> support is versus (the typical) hardware raid?
>
> Hmm.. Maybe there's even a generalization that can be made?
Search around a bit. Everything I remember reading is that software
RAID-5 (in a beefy system...say dual PII-450 or similar) runs circles
around most hardware RAID-5 controllers. Hardware RAID gives you things
like the ability to easily boot from a RAID device, and automated hot
spares and rebuilds. As software RAID improves and gets easier to manage,
there may be little reason to go with hardware RAID.
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