Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Recommendation ZFS on StorEdge 3320 - offtopic

2006-09-08 Thread Richard Elling - PAE
Anton B. Rang wrote: JBOD probably isn't dead, simply because motherboard manufacturers are unlikely to pay the extra $10 it might cost to use a RAID-enabled chip rather than a plain chip (and the cost is more if you add cache RAM); but basic RAID is at least cheap. NVidia MCPs (later NForce

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Recommendation ZFS on StorEdge 3320 - offtopic

2006-09-08 Thread Anton B. Rang
The better SATA RAID cards have hardware support. One site comparing controllers is: http://tweakers.net/reviews/557 Five of the eight controllers they looked at implemented RAID in hardware; one of the others implemented only the XOR in hardware. Chips like the Adaptec AIC-8210 implement m