Merlin Moncure writes:
escalade is a fairly full featured raid controller for the price. consider it the ford taurus of raid controllers, it's functional andpractical but not sexy. Their S line is not native sata but operates over a pata->sata bridge. Stay away from raid 5.
Do you know if their raid 5 is better in the new 9550SX?Or is the "Stay away from raid 5" more of a general comment that this type of raid is not good for DBs?
