Sandy Drobic skrev:
jdd wrote:Anders Norrbring wrote:actually a software based piece of trash with a BIOS onboard. Oh, I also placed an order for a Adaptec 2820SA HBA which is a real RAID controller....sqorry if I seem silly, but how can any raid controller work without any software? if not in user space nor kernel space; it must be somewhere onboard?The real question is "which functions reside in the module and which reside in the raid hba". In earlier times software raid was frowned upon because the server cpu had to compute the necessary raid striping, which degraded performance, but today most cpus are not taxed enough to validate that argument. I have a dual boot installation Suse/WinXP on a hardware raid5, I dare you to try that with software raid. (^-^)
Also, on top of that, I absolutely need 100% transparent hot-spare functionality, no matter the O/S being running or not.
So, off-board RAID software isn't an option. That means, bye-bye Highpoint...
-- Anders Norrbring Norrbring Consulting
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